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FEMA’s mass vaccination site at Pennsylvania Convention Center prepares to open Oona Goodin-Smith, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Military personnel with FEMA's vaccine site at Pennsylvania Convention Center on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Philadelphia officials and Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Tuesday toured the city’s first federally run mass vaccination site at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, a clinic aiming to inoculate up to 6,000 residents per day. The site, which will officially open Wednesday a...

The new clinic has the potential to double the number of vaccine doses administered in Philadelphia each week.

Philadelphia has seen 3,100 coronavirus deaths since March 10th, 2020. But for the first time since the vaccine roll out began, there are more people vaccinated in Philly than known infections. NBC10’s investigative reporter Mitch Blacher spoke to the City’s Health Commissioner who says if the city hadn’t taken the action they had since the pandemic began, the death toll...

FEMA's 1st Mass Vaccination Site In PA: 6 Questions Answered - Philadelphia, PA - The Pennsylvania Convention Center will be turned into the state's first federally-supported mass coronavirus vaccination site soon.

Philly’s walk-up vaccine clinic is drawing huge crowds | Coronavirus Newsletter Ellie Silverman, The Philadelphia Inquirer © JESSICA GRIFFIN/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Peggy Murphy, 72, seated right, waits in line to get vaccinated for COVID-19 at the Liacouras Center. TL;DR: The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium is hosting Philadelphia’s first 24-hour, walk-up vaccination site now through Saturday afternoon for those who are in the city’s 1B vaccination category and live in certain zip codes. Right now, people are waiting for hours in bone-chilling cold for vaccin...