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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 Thursday at around 11:30 a.m., said CRH spokeswoman Kelsey DeClue. Hospital officials have said that about 1,950 doses are expected in the next shipment, but a delivery date has not yet been set. She said that 240 healthcare workers have signed up to be vaccinated on Friday  a number that hits the daily maximum. ....

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