Jamie Feick, a Lehigh Valley Health Network MedEvac flight nurse who is regularly stationed at LVH-Schuylkill, is given an injection of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Tanya Wagner, RN with Lehigh Valley Health Network, on Friday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill E. Norwegian Street. Feick was the first person in Schuylkill County to receive the vaccine, outside of those part of the clinical trials.
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Distribution of Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine to nursing homes is expected to begin statewide Dec. 28, according to the state Department of Health, but officials at Lackawanna County facilities donât expect to receive doses until January.
The vaccine will be administered by pharmacists with CVS and Walgreens, which signed an agreement with the Department of Human Services in October to service all nursing homes and other long term care facilities nationwide.
The state Health Department has not provided nursing homes with information regarding which counties or regions of the state will be first to get the vaccine. That decision is being made by CVS and Walgreens in conjunction with DHS, a spokesperson for the Health Department said.
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