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4,000 vaccine does in Philadelphia are set to expire
Philadelphia city s health officials say there s been a major drop in demand. Mark Makela/Getty Images, FILE
The Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia s Center City has 4,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses that are set to expire amid a major drop in demand, according to the city s health department. These are doses [from the city s allocation] that we ve had for awhile now. There is a shelf life, James Garrow, communications director for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, told ABC News Wednesday. These vaccines have reached the end of their storage capability.
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(PHILADEPHIA) The Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia s Center City has 4,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses that are set to expire amid a major drop in demand, according to the city s health department. These are doses [from the city s allocation] that we ve had for awhile now. There is a shelf life, James Garrow, communications director for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, told ABC News Wednesday. These vaccines have reached the end of their storage capability.
Garrow said officials are hoping to use up the doses before they expire Thursday afternoon.
FEMA spokesperson Charlie Elison said workers at the convention center do not pull the vaccines out of freezers until they know the doses can be used.
A ‘shot’ at ending the pandemic The Penn Cares COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic is offering one of the greatest tools in the fight against the pandemic to faculty, staff, postdocs, and students. Members of the Penn community coming to the Gimble Gymnasium on the first day it opened on April 14. The site was able to vaccinate more than 850 eligible faculty, staff, and postdocs during its first three days of operation before the site opened to students.
For the past two weeks, the second floor of the Pottruck Health & Fitness Center, the Gimbel Gymnasium has been bustling not with free-throw practice or pick-up basketball games, but with Penn faculty, staff, postdocs, and students navigating the repurposed space to receive their COVID-19 vaccines.
4,000 doses at vaccine site set to expire amid drop in demand
4,000 vaccine does in Philadelphia are set to expire
Replay Video UP NEXT The Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia s Center City has 4,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses that are set to expire amid a major drop in demand, according to the city s health department. These are doses [from the city s allocation] that we ve had for awhile now. There is a shelf life, James Garrow, communications director for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, told ABC News Wednesday. These vaccines have reached the end of their storage capability. Garrow said officials are hoping to use up the doses before they expire Thursday afternoon.