COVID-19 Vaccines

He joins more than four million Pennsylvanians who have gotten a first dose since the state began vaccinating people against the coronavirus in December.

Fatigue and fever, itching, and irregular menstruation. WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk looked into which post-vaccination symptoms are common… and which aren’t.

The U.S. cleared the 50% mark just a day after the reported global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million.

All city residents over the age of 16 are now eligible for vaccine, Philadelphia Health Commissioner Tom Farley announced Friday.

The Delaware Medical Reserve Corps has answered the call — without pay— to ensure that the state can inoculate thousands of people at mass events.

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.

The federal recommendation to pause use of the J&J vaccine came as efforts were ramping up to inoculate N.J.’s more than 11,000 homebound people.

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

Delaware’s public health director stressed a small percentage of post-shot infections should be expected because the vaccine isn’t 100% effective.

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.