Three confirmed cases of UK COVID-19 variant in Allegheny County, health department confirms
The variant originated in the United Kingdom and is believed to be more contagious than the original strain of COVID-19. Share Updated: 4:30 PM EST Feb 24, 2021
Three confirmed cases of UK COVID-19 variant in Allegheny County, health department confirms
The variant originated in the United Kingdom and is believed to be more contagious than the original strain of COVID-19. Share Updated: 4:30 PM EST Feb 24, 2021
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Show Transcript Good afternoon County Executive Rich Fitzgerald here with Dr Deborah Bogan from the Allegheny County Health Department to give our weekly update on covert 19. We continue to see good levels of drop that continue to happen in our cases are hospitalizations, acute hospitalizations, fatalities. People are certainly doing doing much better as far as wearing their masks socially distancing, spreading out, avoiding gath
The Allegheny County Health Department is working to ensure people who received first doses of the covid vaccine will get their second dose, as planned, after state officials announced a likely shortage of more than 50,000 doses next week. State officials on Wednesday described a “perfect storm of circumstances” after
New Help on the Way to Help Schedule Your COVID Vaccine
A new phone registration system is set up to help those without internet access or who are having trouble navigating Allegheny County s vaccine registration website.
February 4, 2021
This story was updated at 4:30 Thursday, Feb. 4.
The Allegheny County Health Department, in partnership with the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, is trying to make it easier to schedule an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine. Beginning at noon Thursday, you can
dial 2-1-1 for help in registering or to have all of your vaccine questions answered.
The phone registration support is intended only for those 65 and older without internet access or who are having trouble navigating the registration website. Appointments are for the Health Department’s vaccine distribution site inside the DoubleTree Hotel in Monroeville only. Appointments remain extremely limited and the 750 slots that were available Thursday morning were gone by late Thur
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Allegheny County officials realized last autumn that Pennsylvania’s CARES Rent Relief Program wasn’t helping many tenants and landlords here. So they made a decision apparently unique in the commonwealth: They largely ditched state rules, stopped spending state money, and opened the spigot on their own rent relief program.
Months before, in June, County Executive Rich Fitzgerald dedicated as much as $25 million in the county s federal CARES Act allocation to rent relief. The county used that money to double the state-set per-tenant maximum of $750 a month to $1,500, plus add as much as $200 in utility aid.
Initially, the county and its contractors, led by nonprofit ACTION-Housing, tried to pay some tenants using state funds, dished out through the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency [PHFA], and others with the county CARES pot.
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Although President Joe Biden’s actions on climate change have stirred anxieties about job loss in energy-producing states like Pennsylvania, a new report predicts that plans like Biden’s could create roughly a quarter-million jobs annually in the Commonwealth. And within hours after the report s release, local officials announced a small but symbolic down payment on green energy investment.
The 243,000 clean-energy jobs that could be created each year over the next decade in Pennsylvania are jobs across the board,” said Robert Pollin, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the study’s authors.