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The city aims to speed up vaccinations with its own clinics, which come amid the fallout over Philly Fighting COVID and will open later this month.
Philly to open six mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics; coronavirus numbers continue to drop across the region; tracking Pa. vaccinations by county Rob Tornoe, Erin McCarthy, The Philadelphia Inquirer © HEATHER KHALIFA/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS A long line of people wait outside to receive their COVID-19 vaccine as snow falls outside of the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Feb. 02, 2021. The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium has been vaccinating Philadelphia residents who qualify. What you need to knowPhiladelphia will open six mass COVID-19 vaccine clinics la...
Updated on February 4, 2021 at 9:01 am NBC Universal, Inc. A mass vaccination site inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia reopened Wednesday, with hundreds of people lining up for a coronavirus vaccine dose and Mayor Jim Kenney touring the facility. The restart of the site comes as the city's embattled Public Health Department is trying to move beyond its failed partnership with a private organization called Philly Fighting COVID that had been administering vaccine doses provided by the city last month. Download our mobile app for iOS to get alerts for local bre...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia health officials began administering the second dose of the vaccine at a mass vaccination center after parting ways with the Philly Fighting COVID organization. More than 2,500 people are expected to eventually receive the second dose of the vaccine this week at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Mayor Jim Kenney toured the site Wednesday with Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley. City officials first opened the clinic last month while it was being run in partnership with the Philly Fighting COVID organization. "I was wondering if I was going to get my se...
Mayor Kenney tours COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia confident in vaccination plan following Philly Fighting COVID controversy FOX 29's Kelly Rule has more on Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney touring the city's mass vaccination site following the Philly Fighting COVID controversy. PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Kenney toured the Health Department’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Wednesday as the city continues to deal with the fallout from the Philly Fighting COVID partnership. As a part of the tour, Mayor Kenney and Health Commissi...