The roughly dozen or so patients lined up outside the Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center on Wednesday morning were greeted with a message spoken over the intercom.
âLadies and gentlemen, itâs 8 oâclock,â a woman said. âLetâs start vaccinating.â
The morningâs patients were the first of about 500 people who were inoculated from COVID-19 as part of a âsoft openingâ at the new 100,000-square-foot mass vaccination site at the former Bon-Ton department store at Park City Center.
Leola resident Mark Milliken was among those who was randomly selected among a pool of applicants who qualified for Phase 1A vaccine eligibility to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the center on its first day of operation.