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The Rev. Sylvia King, a member of Johnstown City Council, used an inadvertent visual aid Wednesday while participating in a news conference hosted by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey to encourage people in central Pennsylvania to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
King appeared on the video conference call with oxygen tubes in her nose, medical equipment she expects she’ll need for a few more months, until her lungs clear from a COVID-19 infection she contracted in early January.
“You certainly don’t want to end up in this position,” King said. “I would rather have taken the shot.”