By Keith Gushard
Meadville Tribune Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
TITUSVILLE â Titusville Area Hospital was one of seven Pennsylvania hospitals Tuesday to receive a shipment of Pfizer-BioNTechâs COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Titusville received 975 doses of the vaccine to be given to health care workers in the Titusville area.
Vaccines will be administered this week to hospital employees and selected healthcare and emergency service organizations within Titusville Area Hospitalâs service area who would not otherwise have access to the vaccine, according to Holli Wolfe, the hospitalâs associate vice president of operations.
The hospital applied in November to receive the vaccine, Wolfe said. Since then, the TAH Emergency Preparedness COVID committee has spent long hours planning and preparing for the vaccine to arrive, Wolfe said.
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Titusville Area Hospital (TAH) received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.Â
The Wolf Administration announced as of noon on Tuesday seven additional hospitals received a shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and began distributing it to healthcare workers as outlined in the stateâs interim vaccine distribution plan.
Tuesdayâs distribution brings the total to nine hospitals to date that have received vaccine.
âEach day, hospitals will be shipped vaccine directly from Pfizer and will begin administering it to healthcare workers at the hospital,â Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said. âThe 87 hospitals receiving shipments this week enrolled to be COVID-19 vaccine providers. The federal government has determined the amount of vaccine and when the vaccine is distributed. Hospitals receiving the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine must be able to handle the ultra-low temperature storage requirements.â
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