Health

Pennsylvania took action after a CDC advisory board said Wednesday it needed more time to decide whether a handful of unusual blood clots were linked to the shot.

The Department of Health will help nursing home pharmacies to secure vaccine doses to be administered at the facilities.

The reports are exceedingly rare — six cases out of more than 7 million U.S. inoculations with the one-dose vaccine.

Philadelphia’s second largest mass clinic, in the middle of the city’s most undervaccinated ZIP code, had to reschedule hundreds of Tuesday appointments.

Gov. Phil Murphy said the statewide pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would not impact the state’s goal of reaching herd immunity by the end of June.

FEMA has agreed to keep its COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City open through May 26.

SCI Phoenix in Montco stopped administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Friday — the same day a 45-year-old incarcerated man died.

U.S. health officials say women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor’s office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Days after declaring racism a serious public health threat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a pair of studies.

State officials urge residents to get any vaccine available as Johnson & Johnson doses could be scarce. Meanwhile, Camden County has 2,000 unclaimed doses on hand.

New studies of experimental updates to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines mark a critical first step toward an alternative if the virus eventually outsmarts today’s shots.

Many parts of the state opened Phase 1C Monday, but according to the Department of Health, appointments remain available, prompting the change.

“The problem is, as small hospitals go away, there goes your community. Do you want to move to a community that doesn't have a hospital?”

There are many ways to get the shot to someone else: inform your neighbors; assist with appointments; volunteer with local vaccination efforts.

Long-term care options are expensive and often out of reach for elders and people with disabilities. Part of the infrastructure plan would help fund home-based health care.