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IN HVAC H0010016, IN Plumbing CO50800249, OH HVAC HV-49040, OH Plumbing PL.47812, KY Plumbing M5308, KY HVAC HM06160, KY HVAC HM01276 Expires (513) 914-1269 CE-GCI0542463-01 Front-line workers caring for CO- VID-19 patients at the University of Cin- cinnati Medical Center lined up Monday for shots of the vaccine built to the new coronavirus. The recipi- ents were cardiac critical care nurses. UCMC and the Wexner Medical Cen- ter at Ohio State University received the shipments of 975 doses each of the vaccine, developed by the New York pharmaceutical maker and its German partner BioNTech. Today, eight more hospitals across Ohio will receive 975 doses each. Another 88,725 doses were expected to ship for Walgreens and CVS Pharma- cies across the state to distribute begin- ning Dec.

21 to residents and at nursing homes. Gov. Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran, stood outside the Wexner Medical Cen- ter on Monday morning to await the vaccine delivery. a very, very ex- citing day for Ohio. It starts the process of the DeWine said.

is the day we have been waiting UC Health spokeswoman Amanda Nageleisen said the UCMC delivery ar- rived shortly before 10 a.m. Just before noon, the needle hit the left del- toid muscle of registered nurse Katie Walz, who works in the cardiovascular intensive care unit at UCMC. DeWine watched the vaccination via Zoom and posted a grainy video of the moment on Twitter. UC Health did not allow reporters and photographers to record the vac- arrival, but reporters did wit- ness the vaccinations at Ohio State. UC Health also did not make Walz or Dr.

Richard Lofgren, the sys- president and chief executive of- First vaccine doses arrive in Cincinnati Kaitlyn Kaufman, right, a respiratory therapist in the cardiovascular ICU at UC Medical Center, was the second vaccine recipient Monday. She has worked at UC Health for the past years. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY UC HEALTH Cardiac critical care nurses at UCMC initial recipients Anne Saker and Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer I USA TODAY NETWORK See VACCINE, Page 8A Katie Walz, a registered nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit, was the person at UCMC to receive a dose of the new coronavirus vaccine. seen a lot of people this year suffer and die from COVID-19, and like to do whatever we can to slow that process Katie Walz First vaccine recipient at UCMC Ohio again has gone for President Donald Trump, with all of the Buckeye Electoral College votes moving to the losing side of the national ledger for the time since 1960. As the Electoral College met across the country on Monday to formally cast their votes, the Republican slate of electors the Ohio GOP appointed met at the Ohio Statehouse to pledge the 18 votes for Trump.

But it was former Vice President Joe Biden, now the president elect, who Electors in Ohio pledge votes to Trump Biden set to cross 270 threshold needed to win Richard Rouan The Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK See ELECTORS, Page 8A COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. Mike De- Wine celebrated the arrival of the coronavirus vaccines in Ohio on Mon- day but cautioned that it will be months before enough people are im- munized to provide greater protection. can be happy for this and cele- brate this as you should but realize going to take a while, it will take months, to reach the herd immunity been told by the scientists we need to DeWine said during a DeWine says herd immunity far No timeline for vaccines in general population Jackie Borchardt and Jessie Balmert Cincinnati Enquirer I USA TODAY NETWORK See IMMUNITY, Page 8A.