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Show Transcript show you the map as we announced it last Thursday, which shows you some of the larger sites. Can we bring that one up? Here we go. This waas Last Thursday when we announced the horse park site from MCD l and R to Paducah sites and and this was already creating a lot of options for for everybody to get online, to get on our website and to know where their regional vaccination site is today. I m gonna announce four new sites. I ll tell you about him in a minute. But let s go to the next map and this is how it will impact it. You can see northern Kentucky. You can see bowling green. You can see Calloway County. You can see Glasco Baron County there. But after I m done announcing the new regional centers, Doctor stacks gonna talk to you
CFSB Center to be new vaccination site
Posted By: Features Editor
February 5, 2021
Cady Stribling
Murray State will become a regional COVID-19 vaccination site for the coming months, according to a press release by the University.
The CFSB Center will become a regional site, Gov. Andy Beshear announced on Thursday, Feb. 4. Murray State is one of four new location sites in Kentucky.
The CFSB Center will begin to give out the vaccine on Wednesday, Feb. 10, and Feb. 17, from 8 a.m. to noon on both days, according to the press release. Chief medical officer Bob Hughes said these two dates will be for those weeks and is subject to change based on the size of the vaccine shipments.
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On Tuesday, Feb. 2, President Bob Jackson and a panel of distinguished medical, governmental and historical officials talked to the Murray State community about the latest COVID-19 updates and the vaccine at the first virtual Town & Gown President’s Breakfast of 2021.
Panelists included Chief Medical Officer Bob Hughes, CEO of Murray Calloway County Hospital Jerry Penner, Executive Advisor at the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Mark Carter, Mayor Bob Rogers and history professor James Humphries.
In the forum, Carter said as of Monday, Feb. 1, a total of 362,271 people have been vaccinated in Kentucky with 86 percent of the first doses received administered. Carter said they were approaching Gov. Andy Beshear’s goal of having 90 percent of the doses received into arms within seven days.
Credit Murray-Calloway County Chamber of Commerce Facebook Livestream
The Murray Calloway County Chamber of Commerce annual chamber breakfast went virtual this year and included a look back on how Murray-Calloway County Hospital and the community have been impacted by COVID-19. Murray-Calloway County Hospital CEO Jerry Penner addressed the group of local business leaders and gave a timeline of how the virus affected hospital operations. He also gave vaccine information and an outline of how they will be distributed in the community over the next year.
Penner said the hospital began making preparations in early spring, including installing UV Air Scrubbing in the HVAC system and creating a “negative pressure” floor which would become the COVID ward. He said the hospital saw a lot of nursing staff leave during the beginning of the pandemic; these were nurses considered high risk for COVID and the threat of the virus coaxed them into early retirement. Penner said this problem w
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Jan 28, 2021 9:39 AM
The Calloway County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash from Wednesday night that sent a sheriff’s deputy to the hospital for treatment of injuries.
According to a news release, the collision occurred near the Midway community in Calloway County on Highway 641 when a sheriff’s vehicle driven by Deputy Nick Dues swerved in an attempt to miss a deer that had entered the roadway. The vehicle left the roadway, overturned and struck a telephone.
Deputy Dues was taken by ambulance to Murray-Calloway County Hospital for treatment of what are described as non-life threatening injuries.