Photo courtesy of Allegheny County Photography Covid-19 vaccines were distributed in the Kane Community Living Center in Glen Hazel the first week of January 2021.
TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. More than 194,000 covid-19 partial vaccinations have been administered in Pennsylvania, the state’s dashboard showed Friday — and more than 42,000 of them were in the 11-county Western Pennsylvania region. But tracking distribution to long-term care facilities is a challenge. “Allotments are being determined by the CDC and Operation Warp Speed,” state Health Secretary Rachel Levine said during a virtual news briefing Thursday. “Particularly for this Walgreens/CVS/long-term care mission, they determine specifically where they’re going to go every week when they get their allotment from the federal government. So we have no way of putting that up on a website.”