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John SextonPosted at 1:00 pm on January 27, 2021
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Why would Philadelphia hand their mass vaccination effort over to a group run by a 22-year old grad student? That’s what the City Council wants to know after multiple reports of problems which started when the group called Philly Fighting COVID (PFC) set up a pre-registration website to collect information from tens of thousands of people. Local PBS station WHYY reported that site was not approved or monitored by the city even though users may have thought it was.
The landing page for the PFC sign-up bears an official city seal, offering a sense of legitimacy for an otherwise unfamiliar organization. But that seal is actually the official insignia of City Council which denied giving any approval for Philly Fighting COVID to use its branding.
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Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students attending in-person K-12 school was relatively low with masking and other precautions, according to a study of 17 rural Wisconsin schools published in
MMWR; among 191 cases in students and staff, only 3.7% were linked to in-school transmission.
Putting moratoria on eviction and utility disconnection resulted in 8.2% lower rates of COVID infection, according to a study from National Bureau of Economic Research.
As of 8:00 a.m ET 0n Wednesday, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. reached 25,445,241 cases and 425,250 deaths, increases of 146,836 and 4,011 respectively, since this time yesterday.
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A group that was hired to vaccinate Philadelphia residents has come under fire after allegedly misusing vaccines and selling the personal data of those who signed up to be vaccinated.
Philly Fighting COVID, which was founded in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, first focused on producing personal protective equipment and later partnered with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to provide free, COVID-19 testing to more than 20,000 people in neighborhoods with inequitable access to quality healthcare, according to the group s website.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 17.3 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 8.6 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 11.8 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 146,640
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at an elevated 108,957
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at an elevated 4,087
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 7.1 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened, hospitalizations improved, and deaths worsened