Gov. Tom Wolf ordered COVID-19 vaccine providers Friday to provide first doses within seven days of receiving them and to schedule the required second doses at the initial appointment.
MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota health officials urged this week that people wear masks and wear them properly as the state reported an additional 964 new infections on Saturday.
Pennsylvania health secretary issues COVID-19 vaccine order for all providers in state Share Updated: 6:28 PM EST Feb 12, 2021 MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press
Pennsylvania health secretary issues COVID-19 vaccine order for all providers in state Share Updated: 6:28 PM EST Feb 12, 2021
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Show Transcript BOB: SUPPLIES FROM VACCINE MAKERS MAY STILL BE SHORT, BUT ACTING STATE HEALTH SECRETARY ALISON BEAM SAYS PENNSYLVANIA’S TAKING STEPS TO DO THE MOST WITH WHAT’S AVAILABLE. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FOCUS IN ON THE PROVIDERS THAT ARE ABLE TO REACH THE COMMUNITIES QUICKLY. BOB: THAT MEANS NARROWING THE NUMBER OF VACCINE PROVIDERS TO THE 200-300 WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEY CAN DO THAT. THAT INCLUDES HOSPITALS, HEALTH SYSTEMS, FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS, LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND INDEPENDENT PHARMACISTS. ALSO, NOW VACCINE PROVIDERS HAVE TO ACTUALLY GIVE PEOPLE 80% OF THE FIRST DOSE SUPPLIES THEY GET WITHIN
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Another city bird only in New York?
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At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to those below, a cursory comparison shows that the shape of the curves is the same.)
Northeast up, others flattening or down. I’d hate to think that was a zero sum game of short supply. More on vaccination: