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On top of Philly news ‘I don’t have all the answers’: Health commissioner ducks questions at Philly Fighting COVID hearings In a long City Council session, lawmakers and officials traded words with little new information revealed. Health Commissioner Tom Farley at the city's Convention Center vaccination clinic Kimberly Paynter / WHYY Feb. 05, 2021, 4:25 p.m. �� Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn email newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day. City Council kicked off its probe into ...

February 4, 2021 A city can survive an incompetent government or a corrupt government. Attempting to function under both, however, is a tall order. Philadelphians now must endure both in a turn of events that is shocking even for the famously “corrupt and contented” city as the largest distributor of COVID-19 vaccines in the city is exposed as a fraud. Through a baffling series of errors and the strong whiff of cronyism, Philadelphia crippled its vaccine effort before it even started. The problems began before the vaccine came out when the city government entrusted a new corporation, Phil...

Philly opens first new vaccination clinic; N.J. relaxes restaurant, bar restrictions Justine McDaniel, Oona Goodin-Smith, Allison Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Health Commissioner Thomas Farley tour the city's new COVID-19 vaccination center inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Wednesday. Philadelphia opened its first city-run mass vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Wednesday, as New Jersey relaxed some restrictions on restaurants and bars, providers a...

The rich are gaming the system to get COVID-19 vaccines using hefty donations and cozy relationships with CEOs insider@insider.com (Julia Naftulin,Allana Akhtar) © Samantha Lee/Insider Samantha Lee/Insider The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in America has been a discombobulated mess. The rich have taken advantage of these loopholes, using money and connections to jump the line. Low-income people and communities of color have been left behind, despite higher rates of COVID-19. If you have a story about tactics wealthy Americans are using to get a COVID-19 vaccine, email reporters ...

In Los Angeles, concierge doctors fielded frantic calls from wealthy clients offering up hefty donations in exchange for a shot. The sense of hope that came when the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines soon curdled when Americans discovered congressional lawmakers, billionaire nursing-home benefactors, and hospital executives were getting the vaccine more quickly than the average person. "The rich don't want to wait their turn, so they're able to pull strings just like they would to get a first-class ticket on an airline by...