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COVID-related deaths in Pennsylvania nursing homes fuel blame

COVID-related deaths in Pennsylvania nursing homes fuel blame Published  article HARRISBURG - Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Thursday used a hearing to ask Gov. Tom Wolf’s top health official whether it was a mistake to order COVID-19 patients to be readmitted to nursing homes, although it is far from clear that the policy led to an outbreak or death. Since Pennsylvania’s first coronavirus spike in cases last spring, Republicans have accused Wolf’s administration of fueling the outbreak in nursing homes by ordering the facilities to readmit residents who had been treated for the virus in a hospital.

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bkibler@altoonamirror.com About 82% of the first doses of coronavirus vaccines delivered to providers in Pennsylvania have been administered already, but only 44% of second doses have been injected into patients’ arms, despite the Department of Health’s policy of ordering those second doses to be delivered just in time for providers to use, according to information provided by the department Wednesday. The state is trying to get a handle on the issue, according to spokesman Barry Ciccocioppo in a virtual news conference. “We’re looking into where the doses are and why they haven’t been administered,” he said. The state recently discovered a problem with some providers using vaccine they’d been sent for second doses as first doses instead a problem that led to adjustments explained last week but that presumably wouldn’t contribute to the low percentage of second-dose shots administered, because those doses were administered, even if improperly.

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