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York Daily Record A healthcare system in central Pennsylvania recently opened its website for coronavirus vaccination appointments, and in less than 48 hours, it was booked through the end of February. Between that Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning, 45,000 people had signed up for vaccinations, said Ryan Coyle, manager of WellSpan Health Systems' public relations and communications. But booking an appointment in February may get easier. Hospital systems are coordinating with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to provide mass vaccination sites across the state starting in mid- t...

Penn State Health plans ‘mass’ COVID-19 vaccine clinics in multiple counties PennLive.com 1/29/2021 David Wenner, pennlive.com Penn State Health officials said this week they are planning large-scale COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Dauphin, Cumberland and Lebanon counties, and possibly others, and in the State College area. They said they expect to hold them in collaboration with the state health department, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and, possibly, other health care systems. Dr. Peter Dillon, the executive vice president and chief medical officer, said...

WellSpan Health launched an online sign-up portal for COVID-19 vaccines on Jan. 19, the same day Pennsylvania expanded the first phase of its vaccine rollout plan. Within 48 hours the health system had scheduled 45,000 appointments and shut down the portal. Barry Millhouse was able to schedule a February appointment for his 78-year-old mother at WellSpan York Hospital. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in the past year and is considered high-risk. Before reaching out to WellSpan, Millhouse contacted his mother’s doctors at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, where she had been previ...

A carefully constructed county plan to corral the influx of residents seeking a coronavirus vaccination was upended Tuesday when the Pennsylvania Department of Health again revised its vaccine distribution plan.

As soon as Kenneth Hartenstine saw a tweet around noon Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccines are now available to Pennsylvanians over 65, he immediately went to the state’s website to confirm