So-called vaccine hesitancy often but not always based on misinformation has emerged as a barrier in the effort to reach the “herd immunity” needed to extinguish COVID-19 as a serious health threat.<br/><br/>
THE ISSUE
The May 23 Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline Perspective section focused on immunization. Dr. Michael Ripchinski, chief clinical officer at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, addressed common misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccination. And Dr. Patrick Gavigan, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Penn State Health Childrenâs Hospital, made the case for vaccinating kids against COVID-19. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine now is available to children ages 12-15.
Throughout this pandemic weâve urged readers to rely on scientists and medical experts for information about COVID-19 rather than on social media, which can be a whirlpool â and often a cesspool â of misinformation and disinformation.
Lancaster County Vaccination Center will offer Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccines at 3 planned clinics
The clinics will be held this Thursday, on Friday, June 4, and on Saturday, June 5 for those age 18 and over who are interested in receiving the single-dose vaccine. Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43) Updated: 10:52 AM EDT May 25, 2021
LANCASTER, Pa.
Note: The video is from April 14.
The Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center announced this week that it will begin offering limited appointments for the single-dose “Janssen” COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, on Thursday.
The vaccine will be administered during the first of three planned clinics, the Center said.
Since the pandemic began, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health has performed more than 155,000 COVID-19 tests. Almost 30,000 of those tests came back positive, and last week we admitted our
When visiting Lancasterâs mass vaccination site in March, Gov. Tom Wolf praised the public-private collaboration, saying it was a âreally good example of what local folks can doâ to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the capacity to administer up to 6,000 doses a day â at a time when the public was clamoring for limited vaccine â the site had a wait list of 50,000 in short order.
What it didnât have was a toll-free phone number for patients to call.
And the mass vaccination site â located at the former Bon-Ton department store in Park City Center â still doesnât have a toll-free phone number.