‘It felt no different than any other vaccine’: St. Luke’s to vaccinate thousands this weekend
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Thousands of health care workers this weekend are expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at three St. Luke’s University Health Network campuses with more to come soon, a network spokesman said.
Sam Kennedy, spokesman for St. Luke’s, said about 5,000 doses are secured at the health care network at minus 70 degrees Celsius. Employees at the Anderson in Bethlehem Township; Bethlehem area; and Sacred Heart in Allentown are all slated to receive the vaccinations this weekend, with nurses expected to administer six shots every 10 minutes.
Jamie Feick, a Lehigh Valley Health Network MedEvac flight nurse who is regularly stationed at LVH-Schuylkill, is given an injection of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Tanya Wagner, RN with Lehigh Valley Health Network, on Friday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill E. Norwegian Street. Feick was the first person in Schuylkill County to receive the vaccine, outside of those part of the clinical trials.
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1st COVID-19 vaccines given in Lehigh Valley: ‘Light at the end of the dark, long tunnel’
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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Chantal Branco is one of the first people in the Lehigh Valley to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
“I think it’s a historic moment. It feels that now we have some hope,” said the nursing director from Coopersburg who for months has been toiling with her team on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic at Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Cedar Crest campus. The last few months especially have been physically and emotionally exhausting as cases, hospitalizations and deaths surge across Pennsylvania and the nation.