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Pa. coronavirus update: State hits 500K total cases, nears 13K deaths; Lehigh Valley soon to reach 800 deaths; Bucks County hospital gets coronavirus vaccine | Pa. COVID-19 county case map (12/15/20)
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
An AMI healthcare worker gives Leroy Kaley, of Shoemakersville, a COVID-19 test in Northampton County on Dec 2, 2020. Pennsylvania reached 500,000 total coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the seventh state to do so, and is near 13,000 deaths.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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The 9,556 new cases reported Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health pushed the state to 509,320 total infections since the pandemic was first confirmed in the state in March.
St. Luke’s University Health Network, which has a campus in Mildford, similarly reported its unspecified vaccine allotment comes later this week.
“This is a pivotal moment in our fight against COVID,” said Dr. Jeffrey Jahre, an infectious disease expert and St. Luke’s senior vice president of Medical and Academic Affairs.
“The world has been waiting for this vaccine, and we are on the cusp of being able to provide it,” Jahre added.
Residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities are among the highest priority receiving the first round of COVID-19 inoculations.
Hospitals won t be in charge of administering the vaccine for those residents, however, as another program is handling that particular population.
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The 475 employees at Pine Run, the health system-owned nursing home in Doylestown Township will also be included in the first round of vaccine recipients.
Pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens, and Managed Health Care Associates Inc., are handling vaccinations for long-term care residents through a separate federal program.
Watson did not know when the health system would be receiving its next shipment or how many doses it would be.
“Shipment expectations are a mystery,” Watson said.
Jefferson Health s Abington Hospital in Montgomery County received word its shipment was delayed until Friday. In Philadelphia, the Einstein Health Network expected to receive its shipment Tuesday, too.