Local Vaccine Confusion 6:52 pm
A local hospital says it was one of the health care providers that was involved in the allocation mix-up and gave second doses of the Moderna vaccine as first doses.
Marshall Keely is live at that facility with what they’re doing to make it right and what residents with appointments need to know.
Jess, AJ, Conemaugh Nason Medical Center confirmed to us this Afternoon that the were part of the Moderna vaccine mix up. Now they say they’re working to limit the impact on other appointments they already have scheduled.
This comes after acting Secretary of Health Allison Beam announced multiple providers in the state had given the second dose of Moderna vaccine to patients needing their first dose. The state estimates some 30 to 60 thousand second dose appointments and 30 to 55 thousand first dose appointments could be changed because of it.
Nason Hospital Vaccine Mistake 11:07 pm
Conemaugh Nason Medical Center confirmed to us it was one of the providers impacted by the Moderna Coronavirus vaccine mix-up.
On Wednesday, Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Alison Beam announced multiple providers throughout the commonwealth had given the second dose of the vaccine to patients that were supposed to receive their first dose.
Blair County EMA director Mark Taylor said Conemaugh Nason recently held a vaccination clinic in the county.
“On Friday we had a community clinic in East Freedom sponsored by Conemaugh Nason Medical Center, it went very well,” Taylor said. “They did about 1060 people there.”
Jan 12, 2021
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The phone rang over the gurgle of embalming fluid as Geoff Burke wearily eyed the corpse of the woman on the gurney. Another victim of the coronavirus, she’d have to wait. On the phone, a nurse delivered the news: body pickup needed.
Passing the cremation oven, still hot from the morning’s use, Burke changed from his plastic embalming apron to a necktie and collared shirt as Sunday football commentators bantered on the television. As he prepared the hearse outside, his phone rang again. Second body pickup needed at a nursing home outside Lewistown. Coronavirus again.
By Oona Goodin-Smith, Jason Nark, Dylan Purcell and Tim Tai
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA The phone rang over the gurgle of embalming fluid as Geoff Burke wearily eyed the corpse of the woman on the gurney. Another victim of the coronavirus, she’d have to wait. On the phone, a nurse delivered the news: body pickup needed.
Passing the cremation oven, still hot from the morning’s use, Burke changed from his plastic embalming apron to a necktie and collared shirt as Sunday football commentators bantered on the television. As he prepared the hearse outside, his phone rang again. Second body pickup needed at a nursing home outside Lewistown. Coronavirus again.
In April, as the coronavirus gripped portions of southeastern Pennsylvania, western and central counties remained largely unaffected, but that has now changed.