JASPER — Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center has received COVID-19 vaccines.
The hospital received its shipment Thursday. Hospital officials are planning to start vaccinating frontline healthcare workers Friday, a hospital spokesperson said in a press release.
Meanwhile, more cases of the virus are being detected in Dubois County. The Indiana State Department of Health reported Thursday that the county has 74 new cases of the virus.
A total of 3,703 cases have been recorded in the county since the pandemic began, and 35 deaths related to the virus. A total of 34,275 COVID-19 tests have been performed on Dubois County residents.
The county was upgraded to the red zone Wednesday due to an increase in positivity rate. As of Thursday, the county's positivity rate was 18.91%.
Memorial officials said that Indiana’s vaccination distribution plan is as follows:
• Phase 1A: Includes health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities.
• Phase 1B: Includes high-risk patients, which will be defined by the state health department.
• Phase 2: Includes those who work and live in high-risk conditions (jails, the homeless, critical infrastructure workers).
• Phase 3: Includes the general population
Phase 1A is in progress; the timeline for the other phases have not yet been determined.
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