“This is a happy day here in Clark County,” DeWine said. “They are going to do about 100 (vaccinations) today, a little trial run and then I’m told they are going to do about 300 a day moving forward. 975 doses is going to certainly help a lot of essential people who work here.”
Vaccines will be given to high-risk hospital personnel over the course of the next four days, Mercy Health - Springfield President Adam Groshans said.
“We have our teams on stand-by. We have our associates who have opted in, and we will begin the vacations a little bit later this afternoon. We will begin a little slower today,” Groshan said. “We will begin in three shifts today. We have the ability to issue all 975 doses of the vaccine over the next four days, roughly.”
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus and UC Health in Cincinnati were the first two hospitals in the state to receive and administer the vaccine on Monday.
The Springfield News-Sun will update this story when SRMC administers their first vaccine.
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