Erie s eventual triumph over COVID-19 might have started Thursday afternoon with a quick poke in Tylesha Williams right arm.
Williams, a 26-year-old patient care technician at UPMC Hamot, is believed to be the first Erie County resident to have received the COVID-19 vaccine. She and nine coworkers were vaccinated during a short ceremony in the Erie hospital s ground-floor conference room.
Nine Saint Vincent Hospital employees were vaccinated late Thursday afternoon and additional staff at both hospitals were expected to receive the vaccines later in the day. I didn t feel the shot at all, said Williams, an Erie resident who works with COVID-19 patients at Hamot. I m so happy there s a vaccine, so that I don t have a risk of transmitting it to my family or coworkers.
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Geisinger Wyoming Medical Center in Plains Twp. is among seven Pennsylvania hospitals that received doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, according to the state Department of Health.
The doses received at Geisinger are part of an initial 97,500 doses Pfizer is delivering to 87 Pennsylvania hospitals by next Monday.
âGeisinger plans to begin providing vaccinations at these facilities to eligible employees within 24 hours,â said Giesinger spokesman Matt Mattei, in a press release.
The first doses of the vaccine will be administered to staff members working on the front lines of COVID-19.
âIn alignment with Pennsylvania Department of Health and federal guidelines, during this initial phase, we will be providing vaccines to front-line staff whose daily work involves significant interactions with COVID-19 patients and other staff in critical departments,â said Mattei.
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Justin Bailey (right) of Altoona buys a used snowblower from Jason Mapes, owner of Altoona Small Engine on Broad Avenue on Monday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
“Stay home” has been a mantra of the Wolf administration’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and on Tuesday, in expectation of today’s big snowstorm, the administration doubled down on that mantra, to help ensure that hospitals get scheduled shipments of the new coronavirus vaccine.
Officials have urged people to stay home for months to avoid infecting themselves and others, and on Tuesday, they urged people to stay off the highways so delivery trucks from Michigan have less to contend with as they transport doses of Pfizer’s new drug to Pennsylvania hospitals in weather that could bring up to 2 feet of snow.