St. Luke’s Plans for Upcoming Community Distribution of Vaccine
St. Luke’s has engaged in extensive planning and preparations to expand COVID-19 vaccination access to the general population in a smooth, orderly and safe fashion.
St. Luke’s has engaged in extensive planning and preparations to expand COVID-19 vaccination access to the general population in a smooth, orderly and safe fashion.
State Senator Lisa Boscola (D-18) hosted a virtual town hall on Friday, Jan. 15 and was joined by the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, who fielded questions from local viewers about the distribution of COVID vaccines.
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in the Lehigh Valley. St. Luke's University Health Network has announced that they plan on distributing the vaccine to the public free of charge.
With 5,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses safely tucked away at -70 degrees Farenheit, St. Luke’s University Health Network worked with urgency and diligence to vaccinate an estimated 2,000 health care workers through the weekend while preparing for an even larger shipment of vaccines this week.
St. Luke’s nurse Sonia Iparraguirre, RN, became the first individual to receive the new COVID-19 vaccine at St. Luke’s University Health Network Thursday afternoon.
St. Luke’s University Health Network will be among the initial group of hospitals in Pennsylvania to receive the recently-approved and much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1a of the nationwide effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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