An early Christmas gift arrived at East Hill Medical Center this week: The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for frontline health care workers.Â
East Hill, which is a federally qualified health center, administered doses of the Moderna vaccine to employees on Wednesday. Dr. Chakrapani Irri, a pediatrician, was the first health care worker to be vaccinated.Â
New York received more than 300,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine this week. Moderna was the second pharmaceutical company â Pfizer was the first â to receive approval for a COVID-19 vaccine.Â
The state Department of Health distributed vaccine doses to health centers and hospitals. Auburn Community Hospital administered approximately 200 doses to frontline health care workers on Wednesday.Â
Emilie Hauger has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in Auburn. On Wednesday, she received her inoculation.Â
Hauger, the director of outpatient specialty services at Auburn Community Hospital, was one of approximately 200 frontline health care workers at the hospital who were given their first dose of the Moderna vaccine. The two COVID-19 vaccines approved by federal regulators â Pfizer produced the other â require two doses over a three-week period.Â
For Hauger and other hospital employees, the vaccine arrived at an important point of the pandemic. Cayuga County has more than 600 active COVID-19 cases and over 3,500 people in quarantine. There are 35 COVID-19 patients at Auburn hospital, which is a new record.Â
Driver in Throop accident refused to stop for police just before crashing, deputies say
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Three people are in critical condition following a crash around 2:20 a.m. Monday in Throop, according to the fire department.
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The driver in a one-car crash in Cayuga County that hospitalized three refused to stop for police shortly before striking a guard rail and going off the road, deputies said.
The driver and two passengers who were hurt in the crash are all expected to survive their injuries, the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release posted to its Facebook page.
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