Lancaster County leaders said they are working to set up a mass vaccination site but more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are needed to make it happen.“What we are doing now in this effort is planning for D-Day,” Commissioner Ray D’Agostino said during a news conference Thursday.D’Agostino likened the next phase of the fight against the coronavirus to the Allies’ efforts in World War II.“Now, as then, this is beginning of the end of COVID in Lancaster County,” he said.The county is planning a mass vaccination site that could vaccinate up to 5,000 people per day. It would be in a central location but will only open if there is adequate vaccine supply, according to commissioners.“Vaccine availability is the primary factor right now. This is obviously frustrating to many who want the vaccine now,” Commissioner Josh Parsons said.Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health and other health systems in the county are giving shots to 600 to 1,000 people per day, but LGH has n
After many of them spent the past two months sowing doubts about the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Bidenâs victory in the 2020 election, Republican elected officials from Lancaster County on Wednesday uniformly decried the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by rioters who were incited by President Trumpâs speech earlier in the day.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Lancaster County, who went from reluctantly conceding Bidenâs victory in November to joining seven of his GOP colleagues in pledging to dispute Pennsylvaniaâs electoral votes, was reached by phone late in the afternoon from a location inside the Capitol complex where he was sheltering with members of his staff.