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Smooth start for COVID-19 shots COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers in Bartholomew County and the surrounding area got off to a quick start on Friday as more and more hospitals across the country join the largest vaccination effort in U.S. history. As of 3 p.m. on Friday, a total of 120 health care workers had received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a regional clinic operated by Columbus Regional Health, the hospital said. Hospital officials expected to vaccinate a total of 240 health care workers by the end of the day, said CRH spokeswoman Kelsey DeClue...

VACCINATIONS BEGIN: First local front line personnel are vaccinated in soft opening "Welcome to the immunized, my friend." Those were the words of hospitalist Dr. Raymond Kiser, the first Bartholomew County resident to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as he greeted a fellow healthcare worker who’d just gotten the same shot.  Thursday afternoon, six Columbus Regional Health workers received the first COVID-19 vaccines to be administered in Bartholomew County. Five were Columbus residents, and one was from Shelbyville. The 975 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived earlier Thu...