Friday, December 18, 2020 - 5:45 pm St. Lawrence Health System’s Senior Director of Pharmacy David Sogoian, RPh, BS, opens the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines that were placed in a pharmaceutical ThermoScientific freezer. Photo submitted by SLHS. POTSDAM – Upon receiving the initial shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines earlier this week, St. Lawrence Health System (SLHS) was designated by New York State as an access distribution point for other healthcare institutions. Along with providing the vaccine to some of its own essential healthcare workers from Canton-Potsdam, Gouverneur, and Massena hospitals, SLHS has been deemed the point institution to assist five other hospitals in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, and Franklin counties. Some Phase I-level healthcare employees from the neighboring hospitals have already started coming to Canton-Potsdam Hospital to receive the vaccine.