Passavant receives its first 440 vaccines
Darren Iozia, darren.iozia@myjournalcourier.com
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Passavant Area Hospital received 440 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday afternoon and is ready to administer them to staff starting as early as today.
“This is quite the historic day in our history,” Jennifer Harris, Memorial Health Systems planning section chief, said Wednesday during a new conference. “We just received our shipment about an hour ago.”
The doses arrived thawed, giving the hospital five days in which to administer them.
“It has to be used up within one hour of being drawn from the vial,” Harris said, adding that one vial of the Pfizer vaccine contains five doses.