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Philadelphia let ‘college kids’ distribute vaccines. The result was a ‘disaster,’ volunteers say. Antonia Noori Farzan © Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post People wait in an observation area after receiving a coronavirus vaccine at the mass-vaccination site set up by Philly Fighting COVID at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 15. Philadelphia is home to some of the most venerated medical institutions in the country. Yet when it came time to set up the city’s first and largest coronavirus mass vaccination site, officials turned to the start-up Phil...

On Saturday, the line of people waiting for coronavirus vaccines in Philadelphia was as long as it was desperate.

Philly Fighting COVID ran the city's biggest Covid-19 vaccination site, until the city discovered the organization changed its corporate status last month.

By Marc Levy, Michael Rubinkam and Claudia Lauer • Published January 27, 2021 • Updated on January 27, 2021 at 9:14 am NBC Universal, Inc. What to Know Gov. Tom Wolf is defending Pennsylvania’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, saying it was left in the lurch by the Trump administration’s overpromises and that a decentralized vaccine signup system should prove to be more efficient, as opposed to a centralized portal some states use. Wolf said the state has received just 1.5 million doses, nowhere near the 8 million doses it needs to cover everyone in its just-expanded...

Pennsylvania has been getting about 140,000 doses a week from the federal government and Wolf blamed a lack of supply, shifting guidance and unpredictable distributions by the Trump administration for a frustrating and disappointing rollout.