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On top of Philly news ‘I don’t have all the answers’: Health commissioner ducks questions at Philly Fighting COVID hearings In a long City Council session, lawmakers and officials traded words with little new information revealed. Health Commissioner Tom Farley at the citys Convention Center vaccination clinic Kimberly Paynter / WHYY Feb. 05, 2021, 4:25 p.m. �� Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn email newsletter to get...

February 4, 2021 A city can survive an incompetent government or a corrupt government. Attempting to function under both, however, is a tall order. Philadelphians now must endure both in a turn of events that is shocking even for the famously “corrupt and contented” city as the largest distributor of COVID-19 vaccines in the city is exposed as a fraud. Through a baffling series of errors and the strong whiff of cronyism, Philadelphia crippled its vaccine effort before it even started. The p...

Philly opens first new vaccination clinic; N.J. relaxes restaurant, bar restrictions Justine McDaniel, Oona Goodin-Smith, Allison Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Health Commissioner Thomas Farley tour the citys new COVID-19 vaccination center inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Wednesday. Philadelphia opened its first city-run mass vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Conventio...

The rich are gaming the system to get COVID-19 vaccines using hefty donations and cozy relationships with CEOs insider@insider.com (Julia Naftulin,Allana Akhtar) © Samantha Lee/Insider Samantha Lee/Insider The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in America has been a discombobulated mess. The rich have taken advantage of these loopholes, using money and connections to jump the line. Low-income people and communities of color have been left behind, despite higher rates of COVID-19. If yo...

In Los Angeles, concierge doctors fielded frantic calls from wealthy clients offering up hefty donations in exchange for a shot. The sense of hope that came when the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines soon curdled when Americans discovered congressional lawmakers, billionaire nursing-home benefactors, and hospital executives were getting the vaccine more quickly than the average person. "The rich dont want to wait their turn...

The city aims to speed up vaccinations with its own clinics, which come amid the fallout over Philly Fighting COVID and will open later this month.

Philly to open six mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics; coronavirus numbers continue to drop across the region; tracking Pa. vaccinations by county Rob Tornoe, Erin McCarthy, The Philadelphia Inquirer © HEATHER KHALIFA/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS A long line of people wait outside to receive their COVID-19 vaccine as snow falls outside of the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Feb. 02, 2021. The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium has been vaccinating Philadelphia res...

Updated on February 4, 2021 at 9:01 am NBC Universal, Inc. A mass vaccination site inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia reopened Wednesday, with hundreds of people lining up for a coronavirus vaccine dose and Mayor Jim Kenney touring the facility. The restart of the site comes as the citys embattled Public Health Department is trying to move beyond its failed partnership with a private organization called Philly Fighting COVID that had been administering vaccine do...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia health officials began administering the second dose of the vaccine at a mass vaccination center after parting ways with the Philly Fighting COVID organization. More than 2,500 people are expected to eventually receive the second dose of the vaccine this week at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Mayor Jim Kenney toured the site Wednesday with Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley. City officials first opened the clinic last month while it was being run in p...

Mayor Kenney tours COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia confident in vaccination plan following Philly Fighting COVID controversy FOX 29s Kelly Rule has more on Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney touring the citys mass vaccination site following the Philly Fighting COVID controversy. PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Kenney toured the Health Department’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Wednesday as the city continues to deal with the fallout fro...