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The Pennsylvania Department of Health says its system of designating some coronavirus vaccines for people who already had their first dose is part of why the state appears to be lagging behind other states in how quickly shots are being administered.
Both the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines being distributed in the U.S. require a second shot a few weeks after the first.
Nationwide, 50 million doses of those vaccines have been given to health care providers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show. About 32 million have been reported as used 65 percent of the total.
Pennsylvania is well below the national average. As of Tuesday, pharmacies and health systems across most of the commonwealth have gotten about 2 million doses. More than 1 million have been given to people 57 percent, CDC data show. (Philadelphia is not included because it gets its vaccines through its health department and reports its numbers separately).
York Daily Record
A healthcare system in central Pennsylvania recently opened its website for coronavirus vaccination appointments, and in less than 48 hours, it was booked through the end of February.
Between that Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning, 45,000 people had signed up for vaccinations, said Ryan Coyle, manager of WellSpan Health Systems public relations and communications.
But booking an appointment in February may get easier.
Hospital systems are coordinating with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to provide mass vaccination sites across the state starting in mid- to late-February, according to Department of Health spokesperson April Hutcheson. While we await additional quantities of vaccine for the expanded 1A group, we have identified locations in several communities to establish mass vaccination sites, said Scott Gilbert with Penn State Health s public relations team via email.
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Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine are prepared by a pharmacist at St. Thomas More Manor in Bethel Park during a clinic Friday, Jan. 29, 2021.
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Stephie Byars and her husband were in a Giant Eagle parking lot when they got the Allegheny Alert.
“We turned off the car. I had my husband call up his parents on his phone and put it on speaker, and I went onto my phone and did the tech stuff,” said Byars, 37, of Dravosburg.
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