Drexel Hill Nurse Gets First COVID Vaccination in Delaware County
A Crozer-Chester Medical Center nurse from Drexel Hill received the honor of being the first from Delaware County to be vaccinated against COVID-19, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times.
Meghan George, 29, an emergency department nurse, received the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine Dec. 21 shortly after it arrived at the hospital.
“It didn’t hurt at all,” the Drexel Hill resident said. “I’m at work right now. It’s very much like a flu shot. I’m very symptom free.”
George, a native of Springfield and a Cardinal O’Hara graduate, stressed the vaccine’s importance.
“We have the opportunity and the science to make a difference….for generations to come,” she said.
Throughout the state, 97,500 does of the Pfizer vaccine are going to 87 hospitals.
Vaccines are going to health care and frontline workers first as they care for patients.
That included Dr. Jessica DelCollo. She and George both treated Pennsylvania’s and Delaware County’s first COVID-19 patient March 5.
That patient, a Concord woman, had picked up the virus at a conference in Boston, Mass.
The second round of vaccines will go to essential workers who can’t work remotely, then to the general population. The process will take several months.
Read more about this first COVID vaccination in Delaware County at the Daily Times.
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