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‘Philly Fighting COVID' as City's 1st Mass Coronavirus Vaccination Site Opens Miguel Martinez-Valle and Dan Stamm © Provided by NBC Philadelphia What to Know Philadelphia health department has teamed up with Philly Fighting COVID to open the City's first mass vaccination site. Health care workers in Tier 1A of the city's vaccination plan were the first people to get doses Friday. The Pennsylvania Convention Center vaccination site can serve up to 4,500 patients each day, organizers say. Philadelphia is opening its first mass coronavirus vaccination site. The first doses we...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley started Tuesday's COVID-19 briefing by offering some proof that the city's latest set of restrictions may be paying off. "I have better news today. Our case counts have been falling for the past three weeks, but our case counts are still high and we need to be careful," Farley said. On Tuesday, the city reported a 41% decrease in cases since implementing their "Safer At Home" restrictions, translating into some of the lowest infection rates in the region in some time. "So, we see this as evidence the restrictions are wo...