President Capilouto sent the following message to campus on Thursday, March 4.
Dear Campus Community,
This week, we will mark two major milestones in our response to the historic challenge of a global health pandemic.
Today, we expect to cross 100,000 doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines administered by the University of Kentucky.
It’s part of the largest ongoing vaccination clinic in the Commonwealth and is a testament to the power of partnership. Every corner of our campus – from UK HealthCare to Athletics, from our Emergency Operations Center to volunteers in our health colleges and administrative offices and across this university has united in common cause to achieve uncommon results.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 4, 2021) About 115 University of Kentucky College of Nursing faculty, staff and students volunteered their services at the UK COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Kroger Field on Saturday, Feb. 27. The volunteers enabled the clinic to offer expanded Saturday hours and an increased vaccination capacity by about 1,000 people. This was the final week of a five-week volunteer effort from UK s health care colleges to extend clinic hours from noon to 6 p.m. each Saturday.
The UK Kroger Field COVID-19 vaccination clinic operates from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Overall, UK HealthCare has vaccinated more than 62,000 people including frontline health care workers, first responders, teachers and school personnel.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 4, 2021) March marks one year since the COVID-19 global pandemic disrupted and altered everyone’s life.
On March 6, it will be a year since Kentucky confirmed the first case of COVID-19 – a patient admitted to UK Chandler Hospital. A few days later, on March 11, the University of Kentucky announced it would transition its campus of more than 30,000 students to online instruction – initially just for two weeks following spring break but eventually from March 23 through the end of the Spring 2020 semester.
Additionally, on March 20, UK President Eli Capilouto announced all employees able to work remotely would begin to do so, except for those in patient care, public safety, facilities maintenance and other areas where work must be performed on-site. Seemingly overnight, the bustling campus became desolate.
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