Getting the call
While those around her began to get their first and second shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, 84-year-old Nancy Heber could only wait. And worry.
Her age qualified her for the vaccine, and her health issues left her fearing that catching the virus could be a death sentence. But she was heartbroken to discover she was allergic to an ingredient in the available Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
So she did the only thing she could do she continued to hunker down in her Upper Arlington, Ohio, home and hope for some relief.
It came Tuesday, in a phone call from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
The Schottenstein Center's east concourse was humming Friday during a kind of dress rehearsal for the COVID-19 vaccine clinic opening up Tuesday. About 400