Allegheny County officials announced Wednesday the covid-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom has been detected in the county. Dr. Debra Bogen, the county’s health director, said the case is the first and only U.K. variant reported in the county thus far. The health department has completed a case
UK COVID-19 variant detected in Allegheny County, health department confirms
Health department said person does not know how they contracted the variant Share Updated: 4:47 PM EST Feb 10, 2021
UK COVID-19 variant detected in Allegheny County, health department confirms
Health department said person does not know how they contracted the variant Share Updated: 4:47 PM EST Feb 10, 2021
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Show Transcript This week, the Pennsylvania Department of Health notified us that they had detected the UK variant in a sample sent from testing for testing from the Allegheny County. The Allegheny County Health Department completed case investigation and contact tracing with this person and learned that this person does not know how they contact how they contracted the variant. This is the first and Onley case of the variant reported in Allegany County thus far. I suspected that it s been present in the county for a while. Um, this news reinforces th
On today's program: Two researchers from Pittsburgh-based institutions found Black Americans are more likely to live further from a vaccine distribution
Finding a vaccine appointment is like hitting the lottery for thousands of Pennsylvanians.
And, in the first six weeks of vaccine distribution, residents in a handful of counties had no chance of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 without leaving their home county.
An analysis of state data found that four rural counties didn’t receive any vaccine doses in the first six weeks of the bungled roll-out, and the majority of doses were sent to health care systems who focused solely on inoculating employees.
More than a third of vaccine doses sent out in Pennsylvania through late January went to three counties: Allegheny, Lehigh and Montgomery, which together are home to 2.4 million people. Removing Philadelphia County from the equation the county receives its vaccine doses directly from the federal government rather than the state those three counties comprise 21.5% of Pennsylvania s population. .
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