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bkibler@altoonamirror.com At a news conference after the launch of UPMC’s COVID-19 employee vaccination program Monday in Pittsburgh the start of months of COVID vaccinations in Pennsylvania one of the organization’s experts channeled Winston Churchill. “We have a lot of people who see the vaccine as a watershed moment for us in the pandemic,” said Graham Snyder, medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology. “I think we’re starting to see the beginning of the end.” It’s definitely not the end, because it won’t be until late spring or summer before vaccines, including the Pfizer vaccine that received federal approval over the weekend, are fully distributed to the public at large, according to Snyder and state Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, who presided over a separate news conference Monday. ....
First shots fired in COVID-19 war, but we still face a long winter of masking and social distancing Updated Dec 14, 2020; Posted Dec 14, 2020 Charmaine Pykosh, a 67-year-old acute care nurse in the surgical/intensive care unit at UPMC Presbyterian, was the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania.UPMC Facebook Share Science started punching back against COVID-19 in Pennsylvania Monday as a medical needle was plunged into the left arm of Charmaine Pykosh, a 67-year-old acute care nurse practitioner in the UPMC hospital system in Pittsburgh. Pykosh and hundreds of other UPMC employees began taking the first of a course of two vaccine shots shortly after 11 a.m. in an auditorium room at UPMC’s Children’s Hospital, where in a bright spot in an at-times bleak year fellow staffers couldn’t help but break into applause as Pykosh waved a thumbs-up to the cameras. ....