Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, Medical Director at Beacon Children's Hospital, explains the reasons children ages 5 to 11 should receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC is now recommending the Pfizer low-dose vaccine for this age group.
Maria Galvez hopes that by sharing her story, someone reading this will get vaccinated. She didn’t. Her husband didn’t. They wore masks and thought they’d be fine. Maria was hospitalized with COVID for 20 days. Her nurses helped her say good-bye to her husband on an iPad at Memorial Hospital. “I thought I was going to die. I cry and wonder when, when can I get rid of this?” Maria says, holding up the nasal tube connecting to an oxygen tank in her South Bend home. “We all need to get vaccinated now. … We are killing ourselves, instead of helping ourselves.” Dr. Ismail Al-Ani, Critical Care Pulmonologist, reiterates how most patients who are dying from COVID or who become sick enough to be hospitalized are unvaccinated. "Please take it," he says. "If you are not thinking about yourself, think about your neighbor, or think about our hospitals."
Interurban Trolley offering rides to get COVID-19 vaccine (ABC57 - 3/31/21) Vaccine Tracker: Positive progress continues in most of Michiana (WNDU - 4/1/21) New coronavirus variant found in Elkhart County (Elkhart Truth - 4/1/21) Cameron confident it will be able to meet demand for Pfizer (KPC News - 4/1/21) March…
Pop-up ISDH clinic in Elkhart vaccinates hundreds (WSBT – 3/23/21) Health officer aims for 70% vaccinated in 90 days (Elkhart Truth – 3/24/21) HOOSIERS WE'VE LOST': Doctor who made house calls loses life to COVID-19 (the Republic – 3/25/21) HOOSIERS WE'VE LOST': Physician dies in hospital where he served (The…
Vaccine Tracker: One year from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (WNDU – 3/11/21) New COVID strain becomes local concern (Goshen News – 3/12/21) Elkhart County health officials say the fight is far from over (ABC57 – 3/12/21) Grateful tears, gifts and therapy as many volunteers respond to COVID vaccine…
Elkhart mayor receives first dose of COVID vaccine (WNDU – 2/24/21) Elkhart's mayor gets coronavirus vaccine as racial disparity persists (WSBT – 2/24/21) County turns blue, mayor gets vaccine (Elkhart Truth – 2/25/21) COVID-19 college crisis: Pandemic takes toll on nursing students (IUSB Preface – 2/27/21) While weekly score gets…
Missing COVID-19 vaccine shipment from state leaves St. Joseph County officials scrambling (South Bend Tribune – 2/19/21)
ALARMS, EXHAUSTING SHIFTS AND SADNESS: LIFE ON A COVID-19 WARD (The Record – Goshen College Campus Newspaper – 2/11/21)
Eye on Health: Steps to take before and after getting the coronavirus vaccine (WSBT – 2/9/21)
Local hospitals seeing lowest numbers of coronavirus patients since summer (WSBT – 2/5/21) COVID numbers in St. Joseph County are lowest since September (South Bend Tribune – 2/6/21)
