Deaconess Healthcare Workers Set to Receive Covid-19 Vaccine Wednesday

Means within days -- the first doctors and nurses in our communities -- will be administered a dose.

44news reporter marisa patwa is in evansville with more on ---- who will receive them first and*when.

"this is really being apart of history and modern medicine -- and a real exciting moment for our fight against covid."

Deaconess health system is set to receive nearly two thousand doses of the pfizer vaccine this week while nearly one thousand doses is being delivered to ascension st.

Vincent and community members are excited that vaccines have made it to local hospitals "nine months is a really long time to wait -- we've all been through a lot year recently -- so the fact that there is a possibility it could be controlled -- that is very exciting."

Now in kentucky, deaconess will be giving some doses to their henderson hospital -- but here in indiana they will be administering those two doses in two different locations -- so there gateway campus in warrick county and their midtown campus right here in vanderburgh county and really first priority will be given to those health care workers on the front lines."

"they obviously have the most exposure to potentially getting the covid."

Doses will be stored in ultra cold freezers -- and each pfizer vaccine requires two doses -- one on the first day and the second on the twenty first -- with deaconess using help from the state to track data "in real time -- they'll be able to see exactly how many patients we have scheduled and coming through so we can anticipate how quickly we are utilizing the supply and ask for more allotment so we anticipate filling up the schedulelele, e it and keep getting more."

And deaconess officials are relieved that at the end of a harrowing year -- with icu bed units filled to capacity, testing cites and labs overloaded, and health care workers pushed to their limits -- they have a way to help better protect the community "so -- just really exciting to finally have some light at the end of the tunnel and help us to get to the finish line in our fight against covid."

Deaconess healthcare workers will start receiving their vaccinations on wednesday as for the rest of the community?

Health officials say it may take a few more months before doses are more accessible.

Reporting in evansville marisa patwa 44news and just