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Vaccine look-ahead: Changes for Kentucky and Indiana this week To help speed up the process for vaccination, Louisville will also move to an electronic system beginning Monday. Author: Tyler Emery Updated: 11:24 PM EST January 31, 2021 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The vaccination rollout has been underway for weeks at area hospitals and drive-through sites like Louisville's Broadbent Arena location.  At Broadbent starting this week, workers will give out some of its vaccine supply as booster shots. Those will go to the first couple of thousand people who came through o...

'A substantial lack of morality': One health department says some have lied to get vaccine Sarah Ladd, Louisville Courier Journal © Alton Strupp, Alton Strupp/Courier Journal Vaccines are readied as the first veterans receive their vaccines at the Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Wednesday. Jan. 6, 2021 In Clark County, as many as 30 people lied about their eligibility to get the COVID-19 vaccine over the weekend, according to the Southern Indiana health department.  "We are seeing a substantial lack of morality," the department wrote on its Facebook page M...

Vaccine look-ahead: Changes for Kentucky and Indiana this week Tyler Emery Replay Video UP NEXT The vaccination rollout has been underway for weeks at area hospitals and drive-through sites like Louisville's Broadbent Arena location.  At Broadbent starting this week, workers will give out some of its vaccine supply as booster shots. Those will go to the first couple of thousand people who came through on week one. That will also take place on top of workers at the arena still trying to get Jefferson County Public Schools teachers through the lines as well. "We have 6,000 edu...

"This is the day that we've been looking forward to for months now. This is an active way to go after the COVID pandemic and try to take something beyond just mitigation," said Floyd County Health Officer Dr. Tom Harris after the first five people were vaccinated for COVID-19 in Floyd County.  NEW ALBANY — Floyd County health officials on Thursday took what they say is a monumental step toward beating COVID-19 with the first five vaccinations, a trial run a day ahead of the full rollout Friday. Floyd County Health Officer and ER physician Dr. Tom Harris was the first to be immunize...

JEFFERSONVILLE — A little more than nine months after the first COVID-19 cases were identified in Indiana, vaccinations have begun at two hospitals. Just after noon Monday, Parkview Health in Fort Wayne became the first hospital in Indiana to begin administration of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine to frontline healthcare workers. Clark Memorial Health in Jeffersonville followed, with its first immunizations taking place shortly after lunch Monday. The vaccine was OK’d late last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization. Patients in the first tier for ...