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CROOKED LAKE â Since Day 1 of the COVID-19 outbreak, Dr. Charles MacLean has been working in what was transformed into a respiratory clinic at Urgent Care of Cameron Hospital.
Amber Schiebel, director of Cameron Memorial Community Hospitalâs emergency department, has yet to take a vacation since the pandemic hit northeastern Indiana in March, sometimes logging 12-hour days to not only care for people with COVID-19 but the many other patients who come through the hospitalâs doors.
It was fitting, perhaps, that MacLean and Schiebel were the first two health care professionals to get inoculated Friday when the first COVID-19 vaccine clinic opened at the Steuben County Event Center in the Steuben County Park at Crooked Lake.
Hospitals in outlying areas begin vaccinations
Cameron Memorial Community Hospital was among those beginning to administer the Pfizer vaccine on Friday.
Vaccines are not yet available to the general public.
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Dr. Charles MacLean receives his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine from pharmacist John Crabill of Cameron Memorial Community Hospitalâs retail pharmacy at the clinic established by the hospital at the Steuben County Event Center Friday morning. MacLean, who deals with COVID-19 patients at Cameronâs respiratory clinic in Angola was the first person to be inoculated in Steuben County.
photos by Mike Marturello
Pharmacist John Crabill loads up a hypodermic needle in preparation of administering the first COVID-19 vaccination in Steuben County on Dec. 18.
file photo by Mike Marturello
Julie Desper, rehab manager at Parkview Noble, Kendallville, talks with Todd Klinedinst, vice president at Parkview LaGrange, LaGrange, as she signs up for her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the Steuben County Event Center on Friday. Desper was one of the first health care workers to be vaccinated while Klinedinst was on hand to observe the operation for his
ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) – Cameron Memorial Community Hospital received its long awaited first COVID-19 vaccine shipment on Thursday.
The hospital is currently vaccinating front line health care workers in four northeast Indiana counties that the State of Indiana has designated as phase 1A eligible.
Vaccinations are being administered at the Cameron Vaccination Clinic which officially opened on Friday at the Steuben County Event Center.
Other the first ones to get a vaccination were Cameron Urgent Care physician Dr. Charles MacLean (pictured above) and Hospital Emergency Department Director Amber Schiebel.
(photo courtesy of Cameron Memorial Community Hospital Facebook page)Â