Adrian Elliot, the medical director in the emergency department at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, is among the first group of eight to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, administered by registered nurse Nancy Keehnle. âItâs really difficult for us to see patients having this freight train of a virus run through their body, knowing whatâs going to happen to them,â Elliot said. âItâll be really nice to see less of that.â STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
I jumped into this job at the threshold of an unprecedented election, just as the nation was heading into its biggest COVID-19 surge yet. Covering those topics defined much of my early work. These were my favorite stories of the year:
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Margo Mazzeo, a nurse in the COVID-19 testing center, is the first to receive Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, administered by infection control nurse Jamie Lander at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
photos by STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Registered nurse Nixon St. Bernard draws a dose of Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe during the first round of hospital employee inoculations last month at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
EAGLE FILE PHOTO
Eight stations are set up for the first group of Berkshire Medical Center employees to receive Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at the hospital in Pittsfield.