COVID-19 (iii): the vaccination campaign — county course, Mishawaka seats, and the first-dose gap

2020 – 2022

The state's first doses did not land here: Indiana's first COVID-19 vaccinations were given on 14 December 2020 at five pilot hospitals — Parkview in Fort Wayne, Clark Memorial in Jeffersonville, Deaconess in Evansville, IU Methodist in Indianapolis and Community Hospital in Munster — and 55,575 doses reached more than fifty hospitals and clinics by that week's end. No pilot site stood in this county. When the first dose was given in Mishawaka itself, in December 2020, is the question the medical-advancements file already carries as a named gap (settler: the Tribune's December 2020 archive). This pass searched it again — the Tribune, the local television record, and the Saint Joseph Health System and Trinity newsrooms — and reached no Mishawaka first-dose record. The gap therefore carries into this addendum's closure map still open, with the same settler and one added: the health system's newsroom, searched without result.

The county campaign, dated: the county department's own clinic launched 8 January 2021, for residents of eighty and over and for health-care workers and first responders with face-to-face contact, giving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in two doses. The department's summary data count the climb: as of 11 February 2021, 30,564 first doses given and 8,957 residents fully vaccinated; as of 18 February, 35,081 and 13,519. The state's drive-through mass clinic filled Notre Dame's Compton Family Ice Arena on 26–27 March 2021 — the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, nearly 6,000 residents against 5,760 appointments of capacity, some 300 staff from the state health department, the Indiana National Guard and the county department. The county clinic then moved through South Bend seats — St. Hedwig Memorial Center, taking walk-ins by May 2021 at ages sixteen and over; the County-City Building lobby from August 2021, and ages five and over from November, with extended Saturday hours — and out into the county in mobile form: Walkerton-Lincoln Township Library, 21 May 2021; a Four Winds Field strike team, 6–9 October 2021; Impact Ministries and La Casa de Amistad, 20–22 December 2021. The department's Annual Snapshot 2021 totals the campaign's first year: 89,818 COVID immunizations provided, 45,927 unique individuals vaccinated, the St. Hedwig clinic "one of the most productive immunization clinics in the State of Indiana" — and, in the same snapshot's quieter line, the county's routine immunizations were carried at the department's Mishawaka clinic while the County-City Building's routine clinic stood displaced.

The Mishawaka-seated sites, at their documented size: three vaccination sites on Mishawaka ground stand in the record. On 8 March 2021 a Meijer Pharmacy clinic in Penn High School's Main Arena, Mishawaka, administered 1,170 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, with its second-dose clinic on Monday 29 March 2021 — the school corporation's own record. On Tuesday 18 January 2022 the Penn-Harris-Madison corporation and St. Joseph Regional Medical Center ran a clinic at Schmucker Middle School, 56045 Bittersweet Road, Mishawaka, 5 to 7:30 p.m., for ages five and over. And the county department's own Mishawaka clinic at 219 Lincolnway West stood in the campaign's background throughout — carrying routine immunizations as the snapshot records, and closed, by the department's release of 3 December 2021, for the immunization clinic's pause from 6 to 31 December 2021. A high-school arena clinic of 1,170 doses in a day, a middle-school evening clinic a year on, and the county's own storefront on Lincolnway: that is Mishawaka's seated share of the campaign, printed at exactly its documented size — beside a first-dose date that remains, after two passes, the record's open question.

Sources

1. Indiana Department of Health — first doses 14 December 2020 at the five pilot hospitals; 55,575 doses to 50+ hospitals and clinics by week's end; the Compton Family Ice Arena mass clinic, 26–27 March 2021 (Johnson & Johnson; nearly 6,000 residents; c. 300 staff).
2. St. Joseph County Department of Health — clinic launch 8 January 2021 (ages 80+, health-care workers, first responders; Pfizer and Moderna); summary data as of 11 February 2021 (30,564 first doses; 8,957 fully vaccinated) and 18 February 2021 (35,081; 13,519); Annual Snapshot 2021 (89,818 immunizations; 45,927 unique individuals; St. Hedwig "one of the most productive"; routine immunizations at the Mishawaka clinic); the St. Hedwig, County-City Building, Walkerton, Four Winds Field, Impact Ministries and La Casa de Amistad clinics; release of 3 December 2021 (Mishawaka clinic, 219 Lincolnway West, immunization clinic closed 6–31 December 2021).
3. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation — the Penn High School Main Arena clinic, 8 March 2021 (Meijer Pharmacy; 1,170 Pfizer doses; second doses 29 March 2021); the Schmucker Middle School clinic, 18 January 2022, with St. Joseph Regional Medical Center.
4. Medical-advancements file of this record — the Mishawaka first-dose named gap and its settler (the TribuneTribune, local television and the health-system newsrooms reached no first-dose record.