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More than 5.4 million doses of COVID vaccine have been administered in PA. EVERYONE is eligible for vaccination by April 19. Learn more.
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March 10, 2021
As COVID-19 vaccines become more available and as counties prepare to open mass vaccination sites, Governor Tom Wolf today reminded the public that public transit, often free or subsidized, is available in every county to ensure that our most vulnerable citizens can get vaccinated.
Health officials inside the 100,000 sqft site at Park City Center is ready to accommodate thousands of eligible people with the exception of one thing.
Almost a year since Pennsylvania was shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic, upending countless lives, Lancaster County marks a milestone â its mass vaccination center is opening.
The mission of the new Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center, located in the former Bon-Ton department store at Park City Center, is to âprotect, educate and serve our community,â said Dr. Michael Ripchinski, site director and chief clinical officer at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.
That task will begin Wednesday at 8 a.m. when the first of about 500 people will be vaccinated as part of a âsoft opening.â
âThis center represents, for us, a sign of hope,â Ripchinski said.
Almost a year since Pennsylvania was shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic, upending countless lives, Lancaster County marks a milestone â its mass vaccination center is opening.
The mission of the new Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center, located in the former Bon-Ton department store at Park City Center, is to âprotect, educate and serve our community,â said Dr. Michael Ripchinski, site director and chief clinical officer at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.
That task will begin Wednesday at 8 a.m. when the first of about 500 people will be vaccinated as part of a âsoft opening.â
âThis center represents, for us, a sign of hope,â Ripchinski said.
The roughly dozen or so patients lined up outside the Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center on Wednesday morning were greeted with a message spoken over the intercom.
âLadies and gentlemen, itâs 8 oâclock,â a woman said. âLetâs start vaccinating.â
The morningâs patients were the first of about 500 people who were inoculated from COVID-19 as part of a âsoft openingâ at the new 100,000-square-foot mass vaccination site at the former Bon-Ton department store at Park City Center.
Leola resident Mark Milliken was among those who was randomly selected among a pool of applicants who qualified for Phase 1A vaccine eligibility to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the center on its first day of operation.