First round of vaccines given Friday to local health care workers
1/19/21 1:21 PM
Christmas came early for some health care workers who got a COVID-19 vaccine Friday morning at Johnson Memorial Hospital.
About 100 health care workers who live or work in Johnson County were vaccinated Friday, marking the first to be given to those on the frontlines of the pandemic at area hospitals. Johnson Memorial Hospital had 975 doses to give to area health care workers as part of the health system’s first shipment of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
Nearby Community Hospital South and Franciscan Health Indianapolis also began vaccinating employees and those from neighboring health systems Friday.
Franciscan Plans to Vaccinate 200+ Workers Friday
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Franciscan Health Indianapolis plans to vaccinate more than 200 frontline workers Friday after receiving almost 1,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
The COVID clinic plans to vaccinate three people every 10 minutes.
The plan is to break the vaccination process into three parts.
First, frontline staff who are actively involved with caring for COVID-19 patients have the chance to get vaccinated. That includes critical caregivers in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and another southside area hospital.
The second group is all professionally licensed workers who interact with patients. Those workers will begin receiving the vaccine in late December.
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Indiana healthcare workers crashed the site for requesting COVID-19 vaccines even before the state s shipment of supplies arrived
Indiana healthcare workers crashed the site for requesting COVID-19 vaccines even before the state s shipment of supplies arrived
Sarah Al-ArshaniDec 15, 2020, 06:50 IST
A nurse prepares a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy s Hospital in London, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, as the U.K. health authorities rolled out a national mass vaccination program.AP Photo/Frank Augstein
Indiana healthcare workers who wanted to get the COVID-19
vaccine crashed the state s registration site, even before supplies arrived on Monday, WTHR-TV reported.
Six
healthcare workers in Fort Wayne were the first in the state to get vaccinated on Monday, the Indianapolis Star reported.
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