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THE ISSUE Gov. Tom Wolf and the COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force announced Monday that effective today, all Pennsylvanians ages 16 and older are eligible to schedule an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine. “We need to maintain acceleration of the vaccine rollout, especially as case counts and hospitalization rates have increased,” Gov. Wolf said. State Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam said “this change provides earlier access for many, including college students, increasing the likelihood of completion of two-dose regimens prior to leaving campus for the summer.” Wolf also an...

Matt Slocum / ap When Leighann Bacher first started a Facebook group to help Pittsburghers find COVID-19 vaccine appointments, she and the other administrators were overwhelmed. Bacher was personally signing up a dozen or more strangers a night. Now she’s searching for people to help. When she posts information about available appointments to the group’s more than 40,000 members, the once busy comment section is radio silent. “It’s just like …crickets,” she said. Bacher said the steep drop in demand hasn’t been improved by the state moving into phase 1B, which was estimated...

The message flashes across the computer screen "Your appointment is scheduled for .... " Securing a vaccine appointment may feel like you have won the lottery, finished a marathon with no training or found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Trust me, I know. I actually yelled "SCORE!" with my arms raised one night after trying for a time. I fell deep into the scheduling nightmare about a month ago while trying to secure an appointment for a loved one and realized just how hard the store, pharmacy and clinic systems could be for others. Seeing a challenge, I dove head-first into the vacc...

Matchmaker says the pandemic may have permanently changed how people date By: Scripps National and last updated 2021-04-01 16:59:23-04 The pandemic has changed a lot about life, including how we date. Matchmaker Susan Trombetti says some of those changes aren't going away anytime soon. Right now, people are in the process of getting vaccinated and the country is in different stages of opening back up. That means having some tough conversations about things like masking and social distancing. “Before you let this person in, you're going to gauge your alignment on safety p...

An online matchmaker group finds and books vaccine appointments for seekers.