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Monday, December 21, 2020 ~ Updated 10:13 PM
By JARED JERNAGAN, Editor
With the news flooded with reports of front-line health care workers taking their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine as well as slightly-less-essential workers like politicians a big question remains: When will the vaccine be available to the masses?
The Putnam County Health Department shed some light on the subject Monday, announcing that mass vaccine eligibility is expected in the spring to summer of 2021.
PCHD, in conjunction with the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH), has activated its long-prepared plan to provide the vaccine to the public at-large.
While the PCHD vaccination plan has been in place for many years, the department has spent the last several months refining and tailoring the plan specifically to COVID-19 vaccines.
Written by Peter Carey
There has been an increase of over 500 positive cases of Covid-19 since Putnam County officials released last week s dashboard on 12/4/2020. The total number of confirmed positive cases since the start of the pandemic now stands at 3,671 which is an increase of 507 since last week.
There as 203 active cases currently being monitored by the Putnam County Department of Health, an increase of 50 cases last week
There are now a total of 3,164 laboratory confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Putnam County and 15 of those cases are actively being monitored by the Putnam County Hospital as in-patients. The Health Department reports that 3468 (457) cases are classified Released and considered no longer Isolated/Quarantined as of Friday December 11, 2020. Released cases includes cases that tested positive, were quarantined and monitored as well as possible cases that may have been exposed by a close contact with a positive case. No official governmen