CYNTHIANA, Ky. — The town of Cynthiana historically documented the first positive case of COVID-19 in the Commonwealth last March.
What You Need To Know
- Site that documented Kentucky's first COVID-19 case receives vaccine
- Department received 100 doses of Moderna vaccine
- Harrison Memorial Hospital to receive vaccines this week, Georgetown Community hospital already received doses
Nine months later, WEDCO Health Department received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Samantha Jones is the nurse behind handling the COVID-19 vaccines at WEDCO, which oversees Nicholas, Bourbon, Harrison, and Scott counties.
Jones is looking forward to starting to inject the vaccine.
“We have just been in the trenches of COVID[-19] this whole time, and it’s just hopefully steering us in the right direction,” Jones said.
The health department’s vaccines arrived Wednesday, said Public Health Director Crystal Miller. It’s 100 doses of Moderna’s vaccine.
“We will roll them out based on the tiers of high risk. So we’ll start with our first responders meaning EMS, law enforcement, and fire [departments]. We’ll then roll into non-hospital healthcare workers, that will obviously depend on the supply that we have. So the more supply that we have, the faster we can roll that out,” Jones said.
Miller said this week, the Harrison Memorial Hospital will receive its vaccines, and Georgetown Community Hospital already received its shipment on Tuesday, both examples of vaccines arriving in more remote parts of the state.
“This is going to be different in every community. We need our communities to trust us and know that we are prioritizing based on high risk and what we should and we’ll roll that out based on the supply that we have,” Miller said.
The health department says each vial for the Moderna’s vaccine contains 10 doses at .5 milliliters to administer with a 28-day wait time for the booster.