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Philly Fighting Covid, a PPE startup that pivoted to vaccine distribution, had a spectacular rise and fall.
The city provided vaccines to PFC but later cut ties after finding issues in its privacy policy.
The city is still soliciting vaccine partners and the event has spurred conversation about equity.
Andrei Doroshin seemed irate when he posted the statement on his company s website on January 29. It had been a tumultuous week for the 22-year old Drexel University graduate student.
He d admitted on national television to taking a small number of coronavirus vaccines home from a clinic run by his startup, Philly Fighting Covid. The city of Philadelphia had cut ties with his company. The press attention had been relentless.
Campus public health measures help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 Alongside regular saliva-based COVID-19 testing, other tools such as contact tracing, quarantine and isolation facilities, and health and well-being monitoring platforms are critical for protecting and supporting the campus community. Working in concert with the Penn Cares testing program, Penn’s public health strategy also includes contact tracing, the use of quarantine and isolation facilities, and health and well-being monitoring platforms.
With the launch of the Penn Cares program late last year, weekly saliva-based testing for COVID-19 has become a key component of Penn’s spring semester campus reopening. Since the start of 2021, more than 109,000 tests have been conducted.