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 To view meeting: https://youtu.be/jqm0y0HBvXU Dr. Moyer's program begins at about 30 minutes into the video. October 26, 2021 - Dr. Alyssa Moyer, a Board Certified Internist, serves as a Hospitalist at the Wellspan York Hospital. Administratively, she chairs the York Hospital Department of Medicine and is the Chief Medical Officer at the Wellspan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital. Alyssa leads the Clinical Practice Branch for the Incident Command response of Wellspan Health to Covid-19. In this role she chairs the health system’s expert panel to vet and guide clinical care during the pandemic. Her talk focused on recent developments and lessons learned. With the Delta variant being two times more contagious, patients seeking care are trending younger with more pediatric cases. Currently Wellspan has 206 Covid-19 patients hospitalized for Covid-19 and 21 one have been vaccinated. Of the 38 patients in the ICU and 30 patients on ventilators none have been vaccinated. On September 27, Wellspan started administering booster doses to qualifying patients based on the Pa Department of Health guidance. They believe this additional authorization will help protect any potential waning immunity. “With Covid-19 vaccinations proven to reduce hospitalizations, it makes this surge more difficult as over 95 percent of the patients we’re treating in our hospitals for Covid-19 are not fully vaccinated, and likely could have avoided such care,” explained Dr. Moyer. The vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective. |