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Indiana healthcare workers who wanted to get the COVID-19 vaccine crashed the state s registration site, even before supplies arrived on Monday, WTHR-TV reported.
Six healthcare workers in Fort Wayne were the first in the state to get vaccinated on Monday, the Indianapolis Star reported.
The demand for the vaccine comes as cases in the state rise, and Indiana ranks 4th for the number of cases per 100,000 people.
Healthcare workers attempting to sign up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Indiana overwhelmed the state s registration site, forcing it to temporarily crash even before supplies arrived in the state on Monday, the local news outlet WTHR-TV reported.
Indiana hospitals warn COVID-19 surge could overwhelm them
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Indiana COVID vaccine sign-up site crashes, overwhelmed by traffic
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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