Pennsylvania is making every person 16 and older eligible to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine starting Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration announced Monday.
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Last fall, St. John’s Well Child and Family Center began purchasing sub-zero freezers to store the COVID-19 vaccine. By Nov. 20, St. John’s had eight freezers, with three more on the way.
The clinic’s CEO, Jim Mangia, reached out to Los Angeles County health officials to let them know they were ready to distribute the vaccine. “St. John’s stands ready as a resource to immunize thousands of people a week,” he wrote.
But California’s community health clinics had not been invited by the state to enroll as vaccine providers yet, even though the first doses were expected to arrive in Los Angeles in less than a month.