eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Essex County Public Health Director Linda Beers speaks in Elizabethtown during the department’s first press conference of the pandemic on March 18. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo) Friends drive by Ruth Hart’s home on Interlaken Avenue Sunday, May 3, 2020 wishing her a happy 101st birthday. Instead of her usual party at the Crowne Plaza, in which she invited friends to visit her in 2018 and 2019, the community held a drive-by parade in her honor due to coronavirus health and safety guidelines. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo) Adirondack Health Assistant Vice President of Patient Care Services Carrie Reardon, left, prepares to test Lake Placid Elementary School Technology Coordinator and Village Trustee Jason Leon, right, for COVID-19 at a mobile testing site at the North Elba Show Grounds on May 13. (News photo Elizabeth Izzo)
SARANAC LAKE â The room was far from quiet.
Inside the in-house vaccination clinic at Adirondack Medical Center, a group of health care workers, wearing masks and other personal protective equipment, joked and poked fun at one another as they waited for a delivery theyâd anticipated for months.
The first batch of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines arrived at Adirondack Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon. Some staff at the hospital had already been vaccinated elsewhere, but this shipment was the first to be delivered directly to the Saranac Lake hospital.
As the first of about 60 AMC staff to be vaccinated that day sat down, arms bared, the atmosphere was celebratory. The coronavirus continues to spread, but for some people on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19, this moment was a bright spot. Environmental Tech James Rochelle was the first to be vaccinated in-house at AMC, followed by Physicianâs Assistant Julie Loving.
SARANAC LAKE The room was far from quiet. Inside the in-house vaccination clinic at Adirondack Medical Center, a group of health care workers, wearing masks and other personal protective equipment, joked and poked fun at one another as they waited for a delivery they’d anticipated for months. The first batch of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines arrived at Adirondack Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon. Some staff at the hospital had already been vaccinated elsewhere, but this shipment was the first to be delivered directly to the Saranac Lake hospital. As the first of about 60 AMC staff to be vaccinated that day sat down, arms bared, the atmosphere was celebratory. The coronavirus continues to spread, but for some people on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19, this moment was a bright spot. Environmental Tech James Rochelle was the first to be vaccinated in-house at AMC, followed by Physician’s Assistant Julie Loving.