IU Health has been designated to administer the vaccine for health care workers who live in Tippecanoe, Benton, Fountain and Warren Counties.
Starting this week.
Health care workers will be among those given first priority to this first wave of vaccines.
News 18's anna darling talked with leaders at our local hospitals here in tippecanoe county.
She joins us now to share what the process will look like, anna?
Iu health arnett is designated the administer of the vaccine for tippecanoe, benton, fountain and warren counties.
They will begin vaccinating frontline workers on friday.
And while 2.9 million vaccines have been shipped across the country, this is only one step towards ending this pandemic.
"this is hopefully the first chapter of getting control of this infection" iu health arnett is preparing to start vaccinating health care workers in a four county region.
Dr. thomas meyer has been an infectious disease physician at iu health arnett for more than 20 years.
"this is an incredibly effective vaccine.
Being able to prevent 95% of infections is just staggering, it's so much better than what i would have hoped for" he says there is one solution to defeating this pandemic.
"the only way that we are going to get as a society where we can safely not wear masks is by as many people as possible getting the vaccine as soon as it's available for them" but for right now, only a specific group of people can get vaccinated.
"people who spend their days and hours in a hospital, in emergency rooms and icu's taking care of people who are covid related will be vaccinated first" while this vaccine is an important step forward, terry wilson of franciscan health says there are still many steps to go.
"there are 330 million people who live in this country.
The model's we've read about and the people we've listened to suggest that it will be the first and second quarter of next year before it really starts to have an impact" until that time, leaders from both local hospitals are encouraging people to continue covid safety measures like wearing mas and social distancing.
"this is a war and it's a long war and we need recognize that and do their part" "if they need a reason to do that, it's for everybody working inside the four walls of these hospitals because they are truly doing heroic work" health care workers wanting the vaccine have to sign up and bring an employee id badge with them.
Iu health has the vaccination location planned for the banyan, which is the hospital's main gathering space when you first walk in.
Those living in white county must go to cass county for the vaccine.
And people in clinton county can go to witham hospital in boone county.
Live in lafayette, ad 18 5-thousand-50 more hoosiers have tested positive for covid-19.
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