Columbus Regional Health gave its first COVID-19 vaccines yesterday in what hospital officials call a test run of the rollout of the vaccine today.

Hospitalist Dr Lee Kiser was the first one to receive the vaccination, followed by five others including nurses, an environmental services associate and a pulmonologist.

The COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Keller Boulevard officially opens today and 240 people are scheduled to be vaccinated.

The hospital is one of the Indiana sites in the first wave of vaccine doses and will be giving the vaccine to all eligible and interested frontline healthcare workers in Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings and Decatur counties. The first to receive the vaccine will be healthcare workers who regularly work face-to-face with patients or who handle infectious material.

Photo courtesy of Columbus Regional Health