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Northwest Indiana hospitals will get the first shipments of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine this week, as soon as Tuesday. "Community Hospital in Munster expects the first vaccine shipment to arrive Tuesday," Community Health Network spokeswoman Elise Sims said. "Community Hospital is expecting 1,950 doses of the vaccine in the first shipment." Parkview Health in Fort Wayne administered the first doses of the COVID vaccine in Indiana to a physician, nurse, respiratory therapist, pharmacist, patient care tech and environmental services tech shortly after noon Monday. Parkview and Clark Memoria...

Community Hospital in Munster will open a coronavirus vaccination clinic to vaccinate health care workers from across Northwest Indiana as soon as it gets the first doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. The hospital is ready to distribute Northwest Indiana's first shipment of the vaccine meant to stop the spread of the virus that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans this year as soon as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants Emergency Use Authorization. It will distribute the Pfizer vaccine to front-line health care workers, both its own staff and health care professionals outside its s...