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The New Kensington CVS was one of six of the pharmacy chain’s Pennsylvania locations administering covid-19 vaccinations in Pennsylvania beginning Thursday.
The vaccinations were by appointment only for those eligible at this time. All six Pennsylvania stores were fully booked.
Other CVS locations were in Chambersburg, Franklin County; Enola, Cumberland County; Reading, Berks County; West Chester, Chester County; and York in York County.
“As more supply becomes available, we will expand vaccine access through an increasing number of store locations and in more Pennsylvania counties,” CVS spokesman Matt Blanchette said.
A New Kensington man is charged with striking a police officer who was trying to break up a fight Monday night. New Kensington police charged Lawrence Eugene Meyer Jr., 58, with aggravated assault, simple assault and resisting arrest. According to a criminal complaint against Meyer, police went to the 400
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An Arnold man, who is prohibited from having a gun because of his criminal record, is charged with pointing a gun at a woman and choking her. Arnold police charged Michael Guin, 23, on Tuesday with aggravated assault, strangulation and simple assault. The victim and a state probation officer reported
Getting a needle stuck in her arm felt like normalcy coming back for Doris Hardy.
Hardy, 69, of New Kensington was one of about 350 people who received their first dose of the Moderna covid-19 vaccine during a clinic Wednesday at Allegheny Valley Hospital’s outpatient center in New Kensington, the former Citizens General Hospital. They’ll get the second dose in four weeks.
Hardy said getting the shot was emotional, not painful.
“You have to do it,” she said. “It’s something we have to do. We have to fight all this together.”
The vaccine clinic was targeted at high-risk marginalized patients, including Black and Latino populations who live near the hospital. It’s the fourth such clinic Allegheny Health Network has held over the past two weeks, the previous ones serving communities around Jefferson, Allegheny General and Forbes hospitals.