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December 15, 2020
PIKEVILLE, Ky. The new COVID-19 vaccine arrived at an Appalachian hospital in Kentucky, and medical workers received the first injections.
The Pikeville Medical Center was one of a handful of regional hospitals to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday.
Dr. Fadi Al Akhrass, Pikeville Medical’s infectious disease specialist, received the first injection during a live-streamed news conference Tuesday afternoon. Al Akrass urged the public to have confidence in the vaccine.
“I’m a true believer that this is going to be our only option, and it’s going to be an amazing option to turn around this pandemic,” he said.
Indiana hospitals warn COVID-19 surge could overwhelm them
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Hospital Leaders Respond to Dire State of Pandemic
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Hospitals Plead With Hoosiers to Mask Up As COVID Strains System
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indianapolis hospitals are warning their patient load is approaching crisis levels, and pleading with Hoosiers to take coronavirus precautions seriously.
COVID hospitalizations statewide are down 11% this month, but Indy hospitals say their numbers haven’t gone down. Even across the state, there are twice as many patients as there were in the pandemic’s first wave in the spring, and five times as many as there were at the low point four months ago.
Hospitals say it’s not just the increased number of patients that’s creating strain on the system. Eskenazi Health chief nursing officer Lee Ann Blue says the patients in the current wave are sicker. And IU Health vice president Michelle Saysana says illnesses are more widespread than the first wave. Back then, she says, IU’s patients were concentrated at its hospitals in downtown Indianapolis and in Avon. Now, all 18 hospitals in the IU system