Eighty-seven hospitals across Pennsylvania are slated to receive the COVID-19 vaccine - but Delaware County, despite its staggering rate of positive cases - is not on the list.
Gov. Tom Wolf announced the dissemination of 97,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 to dozens of hospitals throughout Pennsylvania as they are intended for critical health care workers. State officials said the hospitals on the vaccine distribution plan had to have enrolled as a COVID-19 vaccine provider.Â
Hospitals in Bucks, Chester and Montgomery counties were on the list and some have already received the vaccine. The Philadelphia County Health Department received 13,650 doses that it is distributing to hospitals within the city limits.Â
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Three Delaware County hospitals are nearly at 100 percent capacity, according to an analysis of federal data. See data for your hospital. (Shutterstock)
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA About one out of every four hospital beds in Delaware County is occupied by a patient being treated for the coronavirus, according to the latest data.
Those numbers are highest at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, where the latest federal data shows 28 percent of all beds filled with coronavirus patients.
Mercy Catholic Medical Center-Mercy Fitzgerald in Darby is at 97 percent overall capacity, with 25 percent of its patients being treated for coronavirus.
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British Airways
PHILADELPHIA – After having its jurisdictional arguments for dismissal rejected in the case of a Delaware County woman who claimed she was injured inside the bathroom of one of its flights from New York to London, British Airways has answered the complaint and denied each of its allegations.
Amina Diab of Upper Darby first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on July 31 versus British Airways, PLC, of Harmondsworth, Great Britain.
Diab says she was on a British Airways flight on Aug. 5, 2018, when the plane experienced severe turbulence after take-off and injured her.