INDIANAPOLIS (AP) As Indiana’s front-line health care workers begin receiving the state’s first shots of Pfizer’s vaccine against COVID-19, uncertainties remain about future numbers of incoming doses and who should be inoculated next, health officials said Wednesday.
Five Indiana hospitals have received doses, Indiana’s chief medical officer, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, said during Gov. Eric Holcomb’s weekly briefing on the state’s coronavirus response.
So far, 46,000 of the state’s more than 400,000 eligible health care workers have registered for an appointment to get their first shot, Weaver said. Health care workers at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne received the state’s inaugural doses on Monday. Members of the medical staff at IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis became the first in central Indiana to get vaccinated Wednesday morning.
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Maryam Noureldin, an ambulatory pharmacist, injects Reed Steffena, a patient care technician, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, with the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Fort Wayne on Monday.
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The FDA gave emergency use authorization Dec. 11 for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Phizer and BioNTech. The first doses in Indiana were administered to healthcare workers from Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne on Monday.
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A vial contains five doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at an immunization clinic in Fort Wayne. Community Hospital Anderson was designated by the state to vaccinate health care workers in Madison County.
Deaconess gave early COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday Thomas B. Langhorne, Evansville Courier & Press
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. Deaconess Health System gave COVID-19 vaccinations to several unnamed employees on Tuesday, the day before an event it had billed as the first COVID-19 vaccinations administered by Deaconess.
The vaccine, intended at first for frontline health care workers, arrived at Deaconess Tuesday morning. Deaconess had already invited news organizations to attend a Wednesday morning event at Deaconess Gateway Hospital at which, it said, frontline medical professionals would be the first to be vaccinated.