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Gov. Wolf Makes Big Vaccine Announcement: All Eligible Tuesday
The state announced Monday that the timeline for making the vaccine eligible to the general public has been accelerated.
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The state announced Monday that the timeline for making the vaccine eligible to the general public has been accelerated.
Things have dramatically turned around in Montgomery County: anyone 16 and over can now get in line for the vaccine.
Vaccine eligibility has opened to the 1C group. The general public is next.
The state inched closer to the end of the pandemic this week, moving into Phase 1B at long last. Here are the latest updates:
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After months of waiting on a list that was hundreds of thousands deep, all of the 1A group has now been contacted in Montgomery County.
The county recently opened up coronavirus appointments to everyone in Phases 1A and 1B, but appointments are being booked quickly.
Montgomery County received twice their expected amount of Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week, leading them to open two new clinics.
Bucks County has opened a fifth mass vaccination site at the former Giant grocery store in the Warwick Square Shopping Center.
New case numbers rose for the fourth week in a row and hospitalizations were up, even as Bucks County got its biggest vaccine shipments yet.
At long last, the next phase of vaccine eligibility has arrived. Montgomery County residents in 1B can now receive the coronavirus vaccine.
Montgomery County grocery store workers and teachers can now receive the vaccine. Here are the latest updates.
All residents in Phase 1B are eligible for the COVID vaccine as of April 5.
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Bucks County.
Regional clinics have been axed, the southeast is getting a massive increase in shipments, and the public will soon be eligible. Details:
Bucks County officials expressed confidence that they would be able to meet the state's new timeline for vaccine registration.
For the second straight week, coronavirus cases rose in Pennsylvania and many parts of the nation, despite rapidly increasing vaccinations.
Special clinics and new partnerships are in place to help get doses to vulnerable communities who are receiving the vaccine at a lower rate.
A weekly shipment of 10,5000 Johnson & Johnson doses will be coming into Montgomery County, in what state officials called a "game changer."
42,000 Johnson & Johnson doses will now be directly allocated to the counties instead, as local leaders had asked.
The state has announced another expedited timeline, saying several phases will become eligible in the coming weeks.
The state is now 12th in the nation in the percentage of its population which has been vaccinated with at least one dose.
The county plans to clear its waiting list and let everyone eligible under Phase 1A of the vaccination plan make an appointment by Thursday.
More than 240,000 Montgomery County residents have been vaccinated. The county continues to call for more doses from the state. The latest:
For the second week in a row, Skippack Pharmacy vaccinated thousands of local residents at the pop-up clinic.
The state decided to quit sending vaccine to the Bristol hospital as part of a move toward fewer and larger regional clinics.
The state hopes to have all of 1A scheduled by the end of March. Progress has been made, but next week's shipments were substantially cut.
An updated look at where things stand in the county. Officials say they're currently scheduling appointments made on Jan. 31.
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Bucks County.
The order comes as the state expects just 66,000 J&J doses next week, far less than the 200,000 it expected.
The state decided to quit sending vaccine to the Bristol hospital as part of a move toward fewer and larger regional clinics.
Local frustration with the Department of Health is mounting, as the county says they have "lots of unused capacity" to vaccinate the public.
Montco’s Inovio Pharmaceuticals may lag behind industry leaders right now, but their work could have significant meaning into the future.
Counties continue to argue against a single regional site. The state says that locations have not been finalized.
The county continues to warn that vaccinating all of 1A could take some time. A new site opened, and conflict with the state is ongoing.
The Chester County Health Department said it received just over 9,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week.
If you get an email from the Chester County Health Department asking if you still want the COVID-19 vaccine, it's not junk, the county says.
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Bucks County.
There was good news this week as the state received increased shipments, opened new clinics, and vaccinated thousands. The latest: