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A coronavirus vaccination clinic was held at PNC Park for high-risk Allegheny Health Network patients 75 and older on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.
Pittsburgh Pirates
A coronavirus vaccination clinic was held at PNC Park for high-risk Allegheny Health Network patients 75 and older on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.
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More than 2,000 high-risk Allegheny Health Network patients 75 and older on Saturday got the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.
Health system spokeswoman Candace Herrington said AHN is planning to hold additional clinics as vaccine supply increases. That will include events similar to one held at Jefferson Hospital on Thursday for a few hundred minority patients 75 and older.
As the demand for the COVID-19 vaccine continues to far outpace the supply, frustrated Pennsylvanians are traveling across county and state lines to get vaccinated.
Called vaccine tourism, the trend is growing across the United States, where each state has its own rules to determine who can get a vaccine.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health said the commonwealth has no state residency restrictions on vaccinations.
âAt this point, Pennsylvania does not prohibit anybody from going to another state and getting a vaccine, but other states are saying we donât want you to come here for the purposes of getting a vaccine,â Gov. Tom Wolf said at a COVID-19 update last week.
Heinz Field has been offered up as a possible site for a mass covid-19 vaccine distribution — but there are no imminent plans to do so as Pennsylvania scrambles to get enough vaccine doses to people in top-priority groups. “We previously offered Heinz Field for use as a vaccination site