While dodging COVID, don t forget to fight the flu bedfordgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bedfordgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1:43
Last Christmas, my wife gave me a bluebird nesting box as a present. I attached the box to the trunk of a a tree, out on our prairie, in late April of this year. And it was now time to see if we had a nesting pair of bluebirds.
It was May 19th, and as I hid in the tall grass, about 100 feet away, I reminded myself of the doctor’s appointment I had to leave for in about an hour. Fading from the impressionism of my surroundings into the realism of the environment, it took only a few minutes before I saw a pointillist dot of blue flick out of the nest box. I needed to move closer.
UPMC Altoona Vaccines
Emergency room nurse Brittany Leese was first to receive the vaccine.
She’s been working on the front lines from months, taking in COVID-19 patients, some of whom are in critical condition.
Leese tells us, she’s excited to have the opportunity to get the vaccine and she hopes she can lead by example.
Chief quality officer, Dr. David Burwell says health care workers are enthusiastic about the vaccine, and says he’s been receiving calls and emails from numerous individuals asking when they can receive it.
Burwell says they are in the planning stages for administering the remaining 975 vaccines to front-line staff.
UPMC Altoona Vaccinations
Emergency room nurse Brittany Leese was first to receive the vaccine.
She’s been working on the front lines from months, taking in COVID-19 patients, some of whom are in critical condition.
Leese tells us, she’s excited to have the opportunity to get the vaccine and she hopes she can lead by example.
Chief quality officer, Dr. David Burwell says health care workers are enthusiastic about the vaccine, and says he’s been receiving calls and emails from numerous individuals asking when they can receive it.
Burwell says they are in the planning stages for administering the remaining 975 vaccines to front-line staff.
bkibler@altoonamirror.com
UPMC Altoona emergency department nurse Brittany Leese was one of the first of five to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital from chief quality officer Dr. David Burwell on Friday morning. Mirror photo by William Kibler
Just as many health care workers have set an example for the community with mask-wearing during the coronavirus pandemic, participants in the launch of UPMC Altoona’s employee vaccination program on Friday cited the importance of their exemplary role in helping to promote COVID-19 vaccinations in the area.
“They were willing to go first to show the community the vaccine is safe and effective,” Dr. David Burwell, chief quality officer at the hospital, said after administering injections to five frontline workers representing a variety of hospital departments. “We appreciate their leadership.”