Reading Pediatrics News Today

The Berks County Medical Society hosted an event to review a study about how the county can help fill local health care gaps.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health COVID vaccination plan has hit a snag, one that has been going on since January but was just discovered during the weekend. "We discovered some (vaccine) providers inadvertently used the Moderna vaccine shipped to them intended as second doses as first doses," Alison Beam, state Department of Health acting secretary, said during a media briefing Wednesday. "In the short term, we are faced with second-dose Moderna vaccine requests far exceeding the Moderna v...

Reading Eagle, Dec. 15) suggested that pediatricians, wary of coronavirus exposure, are shifting sick kids to urgent care and emergency rooms. While this may be true on a national level, there was no local reporting and no evidence that this practice is occurring in our community. To the contrary, local pediatricians have been tirelessly providing care to this community’s children since day one of the pandemic. For example, Reading Pediatrics reports that it has seen an average of 1,000 pa...