Some COVID-19 vaccine providers in Luzerne County had numerous appointment slots available Wednesday, but you wouldnât know it by checking the stateâs online provider map or most-recent vaccine distribution file.
Checking the state Department of Healthâs vaccine provider map against some local providersâ appointment websites showed that the departmentâs map doesnât always list providers that have appointments available, which could make it more difficult for people to schedule vaccinations quickly.
For example, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital had open appointment slots on its website for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and well into next week, and Albertâs Pharmacy in Pittston listed open appointment slots on its website for Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Some local providers administered all doses of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Janssen / Johnson & Johnson prior to an order Tuesday to suspend its use, but at least one major provider didnât use any.
The state Department of Health allocated a combined 6,400 doses of the J&J vaccine to seven providers in Luzerne County last week â four to eight days before U.S. health officials recommended pausing use of the vaccine to give the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration time to investigate six cases of J&J recipients developing unusual blood clots.
WILKES-BARRE â One man was shot in the lower leg Tuesday night, city police said.
Police received a call for people arguing in the area of Garfield and South Franklin streets around 9:41 p.m. While the caller was on the phone with 911, several shots could be heard in the background, police said.
All parties fled the area when police arrived. Police then received a call from Wilkes-Barre General Hospital for a report of a male gunshot victim. Police attempted to speak to the victim, but he was uncooperative, police said.
Detectives are reviewing video from the area and the investigation is ongoing, police said.
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Edwardsville police are looking for a man who fled on foot after shooting a woman at Hilltop Apartments at 3:40 p.m.
Police are preparing an arrest warrant, and the suspect is a Black man who is 6 feet tall and was wearing a doo-rag, Officer Matt Ogden said.
He shot the victim once in the lower body after an argument, and her injury is not life threatening, Ogden said.
Police have not yet identified the suspect and the victim. The suspectâs relationship with the victim is heâs âan ex of some kind,â Ogden said.
Two small children were in the apartment of the time of the shooting, and the victim went to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital for treatment, Ogden said.