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UPPER ST. CLAIR, PA Three additional Allegheny County hospitals now have Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine, the state Department of Health announced Tuesday. St. Clair Memorial Hospital in Upper St. Clair, UPMC St. Margaret Hospital in Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital in Oakland have begun distributing the vaccine to health care workers.
Additionally, Washington Hospital in Washington also has the vaccine.
The four hospitals are among 22 additional hospitals that received 30,255 doses of the vaccine. Currently, 109 hospitals across the state have begun inoculating staff.
Subscribe These first doses of vaccine are being given specifically to health care workers through hospitals, Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said. Hospitals are making arrangements to implement these vaccinations, not only to their own frontline staff but to other high-priority recipients. The number of people we can immunize truly depends on how quickly th