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A nurse trains others on how to administer a COVID-19 vaccination at Philly Fighting COVID's vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 8, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
Public Health

Why did Philly entrust a vaccine program to a young student group with no health care experience?

Philadelphia formally cut ties with 9-month-old Philly Fighting COVID on Monday. There were clear warning signs much earlier, some say.

5 years ago

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The new wellness center in Yeadon will eventually be the 'hub' of Delaware County's future health department. (Kenny Cooper/WHYY)
Public Health

Delco debuts Wellness Center as COVID-19 vaccination effort intensifies

The new facility will serve as a vaccination and testing site — and eventually the headquarters for the future county health department.

5 years ago

A woman holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. coronavirus update: Second-dose confusion addressed; teachers ‘on deck’ for the shot

Some New Jersey residents, workers, and students who got their first shot of the coronavirus vaccine are struggling to figure out how to get their second.

5 years ago

Philadelphia’s Health Center 5 in North Philadelphia held a press conference announcing its COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Jan. 27, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Public Health

Pa. coronavirus update: North Philly health center vaccinates its patients

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said organizing vaccination events at small health centers will help build community trust in the immunization.

5 years ago

Signs on the window of the city's first mass vaccination at the Pa. Convention Center on its opening day, Jan. 8. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Politics
Public Health
Billy Penn

What are elected officials saying about the Philly Fighting COVID vaccine debacle?

Roused by reporting on the startup’s questionable practices, lawmakers beginning to speak out.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf addresses the media while wearing a face mask
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Wolf faces criticism from left and right for slow, confusing vaccine distribution

Pennsylvania Democrats are breaking rank to publicly express misgivings about the Wolf administration’s efforts to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.

5 years ago

(Alejandro A. Alvarez/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Aging
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

Hundreds of Pa. senior-living facilities haven’t received vaccine as widened eligibility, low supply slow rollout

An analysis shows that more than 300 senior care homes did not have a scheduled vaccine clinic as of Jan. 17, while hundreds more weren’t covered by a federal partnership.

5 years ago

Vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
NPR
Medicine
Public Health

The Biden administration is working to buy 200 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses

The administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses each from both Moderna and from Pfizer, which has a vaccine with its German counterpart BioNTech.

5 years ago

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a Philadelphia school nurse vaccination clinic on Jan. 22, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Medicine
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly hospitals have started vaccinating their patients against COVID-19. Here’s how it works

Penn, Temple and Einstein are pivoting from Phase 1A, when they vaccinated their patient-facing staff, to Phase 1B, their most at-risk patients.

5 years ago

Philly Fighting COVID CEO Andrei Doroshin speaks at the opening of the community vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly Fighting COVID CEO admits taking vaccine doses home despite patient demand

After PFC turned away people seeking vaccinations that day, friends of CEO Andrei Doroshin say they saw a Snapchat photo of him appearing to administer vaccine off-site.

5 years ago

Listen 1:20
Radio Times
Mental Health

“Nobody’s Normal:” reducing mental health stigma

Professor Roy Richard Grinker discusses how mental illness became stigmatized in America and our progress toward a culture more accepting of mental health differences.

Air Date: January 26, 2021 10:00 am

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Home health workers wait in line outside Philadelphia’s community vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Philadelphia
Public Health
Technology

What’s actually in Philly Fighting COVID’s privacy policy?

During most of the time the group collected names on its COVIDReadi site, it did so without terms and conditions or a privacy policy.

5 years ago

Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims
NPR
Addiction
Public Health

Deaths of despair: How the pandemic may be fueling lethal drug overdoses

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

5 years ago

The community COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Pa. Convention Center.
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

City says to re-register if you signed up with Philly Fighting COVID, cut off from vaccines

The Health Department says it’s planning a new mass vaccination clinic.

5 years ago

A person receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Delaware
Health Care
Race & Ethnicity

National Health Corps to tackle vaccine delivery, racial disparities in Delaware

New Castle County will become the newest National Health Corps site with AmeriCorps volunteers working to respond to COVID-19 and address inequities in health care.

5 years ago

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