COVID-19 vaccination with fits and starts
The top administrator for a healthcare system that serves patients in a 12-county region in New York and Pennsylvania acknowledged that supply challenges result in a vaccination process with “fits and starts” but no patients will have appointments cancelled. Right now, the fundamental issue for us is the unpredictable nature of when we are going to receive those vaccine supplies, said Dr. Joseph Scopelliti, president and CEO of Guthrie, a non-profit integrated health system that includes Guthrie Corning Hospital in Steuben County. We do anticipate that on a weekly basis we get a resupply of vaccines, that is the way it has been working for the last five weeks.