Local hospital s welcome the first babies of the new year!
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WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon welcomed the first baby of 2021 in their health system network in southcentral Pennsylvania. Baby Girl Moyer was born 7 lb., 4 oz., 20 inches. Author: FOX43 Newsroom Updated: 5:08 PM EST January 1, 2021
LEBANON, Pa.
WellSpan Health:
WellSpan Health announced that just after midnight, at 12:06 a.m., WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon welcomed the first baby of 2021 in their health system network in southcentral Pennsylvania.
Baby Girl Moyer was born 7 lb., 4 oz., 20 inches.
This was the first baby born at WellSpan hospitals that have labor and delivery operations:
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It’s a big day for WellSpan Health as a number of their hospitals across central Pennsylvania began administering their first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine Friday the beginning of a massive inoculation rollout expected to expand to other hospitals in the coming days. It’s definitely given me hope, and I’m very excited, said Dr. Eugene Curley, a WellSpan medical director for infection control and prevention. If you just look at the last nine months lockdown in the spring, things got better when we opened back up. But then we saw these peaks and valleys. And in the last month or so, numbers are definitely going in the wrong direction. The cases are the worst they’ve ever been, so I think this is one of the steps we need to turn the corner.
Meritus Health received a shipment of Pfizerâs vaccine Thursday morning, according to Meritus spokeswoman Joelle Butler.
Meritus, east of Hagerstown, plans to start administering the vaccine to front-line hospital workers Friday morning.
The health system is following the state of Marylandâs phased plan for vaccinations. Announced earlier this month, the plan calls for first vaccinating health care workers, nursing home residents and first responders.
As more vaccines become available, doses would be provided next to people at high risk of severe illness or complications from COVID-19, then to people working in critical infrastructure roles and people at moderate risk of severe COVID-19 illness.