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Head of registered nurses union at Camp Hill prison is pleading for COVID-19 vaccines: ‘We are begging’ Updated Mar 05, 2021; Posted Mar 05, 2021 The head of the union that represents registered nurses at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill is pleading for any medical facility or hospital in Pennsylvania that is able to vaccinate his members to come to the rescue. Hundreds of infections have been reported at the prison in Lower Allen Township. Facebook Share Another organization representing prison workers is speaking out about the need to accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations fo...

Amid Camp Hill prison COVID-19 outbreak, corrections union urges Pa. to vaccinate staff Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 State and country prisons across Pennsylvania are seeing troubling rates of coronavirus outbreaks among inmates and staff. The Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association is calling on the commonwealth to prioritize the vaccination of prison staff and workers. Facebook Share Amid a COVID-19 outbreak at a Pennsylvania prison, the union representing about the state’s corrections officers workers is urging the state to prioritize the COVID-19 vaccination p...

Daycare workers, first responders, grocery store employees and others who come in close contact with the public every day all remain in the second tier of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout. So Gov. Tom Wolf’s decision to specially accommodate teachers was greeted with skepticism and even anger.

Some prison inmates are receiving the COVID-19 vaccine before reaching Phase 1B raising concerns As the state is currently in Phase 1A of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, some inmates are receiving vaccines before the state enters Phase 1B- concerning many. Author: Victoria Lucas (WPMT) Updated: 11:15 PM EST February 27, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — Inmates in prisons across the commonwealth are now able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1B. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has worked with the department of health to implement this agenda. Althou...

Jan. 26 Even if the unfolding vaccination effort against COVID-19 has the desired effect of suppressing the pandemic, Pennsylvania still faces another public health emergency. The scope of the COVID-19 emergency has worsened the opioid addiction crisis. Pennsylvania is one of the states most heavily affected by the addiction crisis. To the state government’s credit, it had reacted aggressively to the challenge. The Wolf administration enacted a series of emergency measures to expand access to the lifesaving antidote nalaxone. It, the Legislature and the medical community worked together to ...