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Indiana scrambles to get COVID vaccines into arms FREE NEWSLETTERS Indiana University Health Nurse Rachael Chisom administers a COVID vaccine to hospital employee Cathy Treen at the IU Health Neuroscience Center on West 15th Street. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) The line stretched nearly three dozen people long, around a corner and down the hall at Indiana University Health’s vaccine clinic near Methodist Hospital. To one side, nurses were administering shots every minute or so at six dosing stations. That’s about 1,000 shots each day, seven days a week, since the makeshift clinic opened in mid-December. Some of those in line celebrated the vaccine as a promising development after a year of tough coping, away from evenings out for a meal or weekend fun at sports events. ....
Hoosiers age 80 and older turn out by the hundreds for COVID-19 shots FREE NEWSLETTERS January 11, 2021 Registered nurse Stacey Meskimen gives 86-year-old Bruce Melchert the first of two shots for his COVID-19 vaccine. Melchert s daughter helped him sign up as soon as the appointments went online. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) Bruce Melchert, 86, has missed going to the gym and getting together with his friends as the pandemic has swept across America, forcing millions of people to stay home and avoid crowds. So when he heard last week that Hoosiers age 80 and older could register for a vaccine, Melchert had his daughter sign him up immediately. And by Monday afternoon, he was in line to get the first of his two shots at Indiana University Health’s vaccination clinic near Methodist Hospital. ....
U.S. trade policies likely to soften after Biden becomes president The incoming Biden administration is widely expected to embrace a more multinational approach to U.S. trade policy, moving away from the “America first” strategy embraced by President Donald Trump. “We know there will be changes under a Biden administration. He’s more of an internationalist,” said David Hardin, a farmer who raises pigs, corn and soybeans on his Danville farm in Hendricks County. Everything Hardin produces has been affected by the back-and-forth tariffs that the United States and China imposed on each other’s exports beginning in 2018. Hardin, who saw pork prices plummet after China imposed a 25% tariff on U.S. pork in April 2018, said trade has “somewhat normalized” since then. In part, that came from a deal the United States and China reached early this year in which China agreed to increase its purchase of U.S. goods and services in 2020 and 2021. ....