UPMC Livestream
Five UPMC employees were the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Pittsburgh Monday. UPMC received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine at 9:15 a.m. at Children’s Hospital in Lawrenceville. The first shipment contained 975 doses; the state of Pennsylvania is slated to receive 100 shipments, equaling 97,500 doses total.
The five workers who got vaccinated in a live-streamed event represented different sectors of the health system’s workforce:
Charmaine Pykosh, 67, advanced nurse practitioner, UPMC Presbyterian
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, 42, emergency department physician, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Christian Schott, 36, ICU nurse, UPMC Passavant
Ja’Ray Gamble, 29, transporter, UPMC Mercy