Although Luzerne County COVID-19 vaccine providers received no vaccine shipments last week because of winter storms, they got a major shot in the arm this week.
Vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna shipped a total of 14,025 doses to 12 providers in the county on Monday and Tuesday, according to data released Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center received most of the vaccine for its vaccination site in CenterPoint Park in Jenkins Twp. â 5,850 doses of Pfizerâs vaccine and 4,300 doses of Modernaâs.
Add the number of vaccine doses shipped here last week to the 14,550 doses shipped the week of Feb. 8 and it exceeds the combined number of doses shipped here over the four weeks between Jan. 11 and Feb. 7 by 300 doses.
Geisinger’s health care heroes are now receiving their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Wednesday morning, exactly 21 days since vaccine doses first were given within the health system, employees returned and rolled up their sleeves to get their second dose. In three weeks Geisinger has ramped up to the point of more than 1,000 vaccines per day over the past week, totaling approximately 12,000 people with their first dose of the COVID vaccine. When people get their first doses, they’re scheduled immediately to receive their second dose. Receiving that second dose is a critical step in the COVID vaccine process.
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Saleem COVID vaccine: Resident physician Muhammad Sabih Saleem, M.D., receives the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre. Saleem, one of the first front-line health care workers at Geisinger to receive a first dose, received this second dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine from nurse Alison Krakosky.
DANVILLE Geisinger reported Wednesday staff members across its health care system are now receiving their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Exactly 21 days since vaccine doses first were given within the health system, employees returned and rolled up their sleeves to get their second dose.
Ava and Liam were the two most popular baby names of the year at Geisinger hospitals, Geisinger Health System announced Thursday.
Liam climbed up one spot in 2020, beating out Noah to take the No. 1 spot for boys, while Ava passed Emma, Olivia, Harper, Charlotte and Amelia to take the No. 1 spot for girls.
The health system said it delivered 4,945 babies as of Dec. 21, and that the rankings were based on names selected at five hospitals in Pennsylvania.
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Twp. delivered 1,749 babies.
The top six girlsâ names at that hospital were: Ava, Sophia, Madison, Ella, Luna and Harper.
LVHN-Pocono gets COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna s arrives in Wilkes-Barre
COVID-19 vaccinations continue to spread across the commonwealth and into the Poconos as the effort to combat the coronavirus via inoculations gains momentum.
Lehigh Valley Health Network-Pocono received its first shipment of the highly-anticipated Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Friday, Dec. 18, and physicians immediately began doling it out to staff members that very day.
Director of Cardiopulmonary Services Francine Rich-Benton was the first to receive her shot, after which she signed the hospital network’s “Doing My Part” poster to show her commitment to fighting the pandemic.
“It was so exciting to be a part of something so big, that we need so desperately,” Rich-Benton said. “It’s a great feeling to motivate family and friends and the community. I wanted to show them this is important, and don’t wait.”