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.
So far, no adverse effects have been reported locally.
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“It’s kind of a boost and just a little bit of a sigh of relief coming after months and months of trudging through (the pandemic),” DeClue said, referring to the availability of the vaccine. “…We’ve noticed a lot of people posting selfies, either right after they got their vaccine or having someone take a picture of their vaccine being administered and just saying how great they feel being able to get it.”
The first full day of limited COVID-19 vaccinations at CRH’s clinic came as hundreds of more hospitals around the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots to health care workers as the vaccination effort in the U.S. rapidly expanded this week.
CRH held a soft launch of its vaccine efforts on Thursday and vaccinated six health care workers with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Dr. Raymond Kiser, medical director of hospital care physicians at CRH, was the first Bartholomew County resident to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
More than 50 hospitals in Indiana this week receive 55,575 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, including CRH, which received an initial shipment of 975 on Thursday morning.
Indiana’s initial batch of vaccines, however, falls far short of demand.
State health officials said there are more than 400,000 eligible health care workers in Indiana, including an estimated 3,147 in Bartholomew County.
The U.S. hopes for enough vaccines for 20 million people by the end of the month, and federal officials stood on the verge of adding a second COVID-19 vaccine to their arsenal Friday, The Associated Press reported.
The Food and Drug Administration was evaluating a shot developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health and was expected to give it the green light soon, clearing the way for its use to begin as early as Monday.
That would give the U.S. a critical new weapon against the coronavirus in addition to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine now being dispensed to millions of health care workers and nursing home patients, according to wire reports.
CRH officials said they expect a second shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine during the first half of next week, DeClue said.
CRH officials anticipate receiving doses of the Moderna vaccine if it is authorized by the FDA, but it is not yet clear how many doses CRH would receive or when.
“We anticipate that it will run much like Pfizer did and that recommendation will follow through with the approval and then we’ll begin pulling in Moderna along the Pfizer (vaccine), and the clinic staff have been planning that from the beginning,” DeClue said.
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