COVID In Pennsylvania: Gov. Tom Wolf Blaming Feds For Slow Rollout Of Vaccines
On Tuesday, health officials announced an additional 4,628 cases of COVID-19.
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On Tuesday, health officials announced an additional 4,628 cases of COVID-19.
The organization offered vaccines, pre-registration and testing to residents throughout the city, and also ran the mass vaccination site at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Health officials now say those mutations appear to be more dangerous than first thought.
More than 2 million have pre-registered for the vaccine.
A toll free phone line went live at 8 a.m. Monday in New Jersey to help people who do not have access to a computer make an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Kenilworth, New Jersey-based drugmaker said Monday that it will focus instead on studying two possible treatments for the virus that also have yet to be approved by regulators.
With the United States now tallying more than 25 million COVID-19 cases, experts say now is the time to double down on safety measures and speed up vaccine rollouts before a variant further surges infections.
Thousands of shots are being given in the Philadelphia region every day, but it's not enough.
The variant is believed to be more transmissible but it's unclear whether it's deadlier, the Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said during a news conference.
It's his first full day on the job and President Joe Biden is ready to tackle what has become his first priority -- the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden is a president who knows the devastation of cancer, losing his 46-year-old son Beau to brain cancer.
Health officials said another 260 people died from the virus, pushing the total past 20,120.
The Biden administration has promised to try to turn the COVID-19 pandemic around and drastically speed up the pace of vaccinating Americans against the virus.
In Delaware County, almost 3,000 people now have that full coverage, including one very relieved community in Prospect Park.
Officials also revealed that two cases of the United Kingdom variant strain have been found in Philadelphia.