COVID-19 vaccine providers in Lancaster County are facing unique challenges brought on by the pandemic as they race to inoculate the population.
Theyâve worked out how to coordinate vaccination clinics while keeping social distancing and other mitigation efforts to reduce the spread of the virus. In addition, the vaccine providers are dependent on a federally allocated number of doses and are required to follow state guidelines about who to vaccinate when.
Meanwhile, theyâre racing against time and daily increases in new COVID-19 cases and infection related deaths.
Nonetheless, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health alone has been able to administer nearly 600 shots on some days.
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