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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said in April that a second round of coronavirus was “inevitable.” “If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well,” Fauci said at the time. “If we don’t do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.” Pennsylvania, like many of the states around it, was in a lockdown for the first few months ...

And when Pykosh arrives at work next week, she will be safer. Not immune, but more resistant. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, developed less than a year after the virus was identified, was approved last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, considered the world’s strictest medical regulator. The first of nearly 3 million doses, packed in dry ice to maintain ultra-cold temperatures, were shipped to some states last weekend. "This is going to take time to get to everyone — to make sure ...

It’s a big day for WellSpan Health as a number of their hospitals across central Pennsylvania began administering their first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine Friday — the beginning of a massive inoculation rollout expected to expand to other hospitals in the coming days. "It’s definitely given me hope, and I’m very excited," said Dr. Eugene Curley, a WellSpan medical director for infection control and prevention. "If you just look at the last nine months — lockdown in the sprin...