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FEMA’s mass vaccination site at Pennsylvania Convention Center prepares to open Oona Goodin-Smith, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Military personnel with FEMAs vaccine site at Pennsylvania Convention Center on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Philadelphia officials and Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Tuesday toured the city’s first federally run mass vaccination site at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, a clinic ...

The new clinic has the potential to double the number of vaccine doses administered in Philadelphia each week.

Philadelphia has seen 3,100 coronavirus deaths since March 10th, 2020. But for the first time since the vaccine roll out began, there are more people vaccinated in Philly than known infections. NBC10’s investigative reporter Mitch Blacher spoke to the City’s Health Commissioner who says if the city hadn’t taken the action they had since the pandemic began, the death toll...

FEMA's 1st Mass Vaccination Site In PA: 6 Questions Answered - Philadelphia, PA - The Pennsylvania Convention Center will be turned into the state's first federally-supported mass coronavirus vaccination site soon.

Philly’s walk-up vaccine clinic is drawing huge crowds | Coronavirus Newsletter Ellie Silverman, The Philadelphia Inquirer © JESSICA GRIFFIN/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Peggy Murphy, 72, seated right, waits in line to get vaccinated for COVID-19 at the Liacouras Center. TL;DR: The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium is hosting Philadelphia’s first 24-hour, walk-up vaccination site now through Saturday afternoon for those who are in the city’s 1B vaccination category and...

Vaccine access has become a political football and a question of equity in Philadelphia, America’s sixth largest metropolis. The city's Black population has been especially effected.

A mass vaccination site run by FEMA will be setup at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, potentially vaccinating 6000 people per day.

A new Israeli study says that the Pfizer vaccine first shot is actually 85% effective. The country has reportedly been able to vaccine two-thirds of its population.

Philadelphia's arduous effort to inoculate the largest city in Pennsylvania will soon get an added boost from the federal government.

WHYY By The sun sets behind Lincoln Financial Field before an NFL football game between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz) Philadelphia City Council continued to turn up the heat on Mayor Jim Kenney in a spate over the use of Lincoln Financial Field as a mass vaccination site, a plan known as “Operation Philly Special.” Members introduced and passed a near-unanimous resolution calling on Kenney to activate the stadi...