HYANNIS – Diane and Lucien Poyant of Hyannisport didn’t know there was a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on the grounds of the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis until they drove past it Monday.
After calling a number at Cape Cod Healthcare, which is hosting the clinic, they got an appointment for Tuesday morning and joined a long line of cars snaking down Scudder Avenue past the West End Rotary.
The Poyants, both 83, said they were thrilled and relieved to stumble upon the opportunity to get their first shots.
“We’ve been trying everything CVS and all that stuff,” Lucien said. “We can’t thank (Cape Cod Healthcare) enough.”
By Cynthia McCormick
Cape Cod Times
The Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force has scheduled a Wednesday phone briefing for Cape Codders over 65 to discuss vaccination access. The call comes in response to mounting concerns about the phase two rollout.
The task force also said residents can now sign up for email notifications (see below) to receive 24-hour advance notice when a Barnstable County COVID-19 clinic is opening for registration. The phone briefing will be held through a phone conferencing service that will proactively call the home phone numbers for approximately 50,000 Cape Codders over 65 to join the call just before it begins on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., task force communications director Geoff Spillane said in a press release.
Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals are filled nearly to capacity as a record number of COVID-19 patients strains the local health care system, Cape Cod Healthcare President and CEO Michael K. Lauf said Wednesday.
Coronavirus cases surged to 71 between Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis and Falmouth Hospital on Tuesday the most ever, Lauf said.
As of Wednesday, the hospitals had a total of 66 patients with coronavirus.
That is 20 more patients than were hospitalized in Hyannis and Falmouth on April 21 during a spring pandemic peak, according to state Department of Public Health statistics.
“COVID has come back with a vengeance,” Lauf said. “Our hospitals are busier today than we’ve ever been in the history of Cape Cod Healthcare.”
Cape Cod Times
HYANNIS – Cape Cod Hospital nurse Pam Morrison has been caring for COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began in the spring.
On Tuesday afternoon, she became the first Cape Cod Hospital employee to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, to the applause of co-workers and Cape Cod Healthcare President and CEO Michael K. Lauf.
Nurses from the hospital’s South 2 wing expressed relief and hope as they lined up for the first dose of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine, according to a Times photographer on the scene.
Cape Cod Healthcare will receive 2,925 doses of the Pfizer vaccine as part of the first shipment to Cape Cod, Lauf said during a press call preceding the vaccine rollout.
HYANNIS – Cape Cod Hospital nurse Pam Morrison has been caring for COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began in the spring.
On Tuesday afternoon, she became the first Cape Cod Hospital employee to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, to the applause of co-workers and Cape Cod Healthcare President and CEO Michael K. Lauf.
Nurses from the hospital’s South 2 wing expressed relief and hope as they lined up for the first dose of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine, according to a Times photographer on the scene.
Cape Cod Healthcare will receive 2,925 doses of the Pfizer vaccine as part of the first shipment to Cape Cod, Lauf said during a press call preceding the vaccine rollout.