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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Health care workers administering covid vaccines will rely mostly on the honor system to verify that new patients outside of their hospital systems are eligible to get the shot. Pennsylvania officials have expanded eligibility of those who can move to the front of the vaccination line. The top priority group, called 1A, now includes people older than 65 and people over 16 who have certain underlying health conditions. The change encompasses a wide swath of people — more th...

A Democratic state lawmaker criticized Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout as muddled on Friday - saying other states are doing a much better job at distribution and communication - while unions representing police and prison guards expressed outrage at having been shoved farther back in line for COVID-19 shots.

A Democratic state lawmaker criticized Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout as muddled on Friday — saying other states are doing a much better job at distribution and communication — while unions representing police and prison guards expressed outrage at having been shoved farther back in line for COVID-19 shots.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday he will nominate two administration staff members to replace positions held by outgoing secretary of the Department of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine. His Secretary of Health nominee Alison Beam is an attorney and health policy administrator who has served most recently as his deputy chief of staff. She assumes the role as acting health secretary on Monday. In her role in the Wolf administration, Beam has coordinated initiatives and resources across Pennsylvania’s departments of Health, Human Services, Drug & Alcohol Programs, Aging and Insurance, as w...

Across Pennsylvania and the U.S., the coronavirus is spreading rapidly through prisons and jails, where communal living is standard and social distancing is nearly impossible.