90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Monday, April 5, 2021 On today's program: Commonwealth residents in Phase 1B can begin booking appointments today, but there are still thousands of 1A eligible residents who haven’t gotten the shot; more than 100 COVID-19 cases have been connected to a Beaver County ethane cracker site; and award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo tells how one character’s youth in her book “Girl, Woman, Other” is a reflection of Evaristo as a young adult.
(0:00 — 5:28) “About 5.5 million [vaccines] have been distributed [in Pennsylvania],” says WESA health reporter, Sarah Boden. “That all shakes out to maybe roughly a third of Pennsylvanians have received at least one shot.”