The state plans to begin vaccinating teachers and school staff next week with the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine under a plan announced Wednesday by Gov. Tom Wolf.
Pennsylvania officials have released an outline of a plan to vaccinate teachers against COVID-19.Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam, Department of Education Acting Secretary Noe Ortega and PEMA Director Randy Padfield reviewed the plan at a media briefing on Thursday. The Wolf administration is working with Intermediate Units and other education partners to give the one-dose Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine to Pre-K through Grade 12 public and non-public school staff across Pennsylvania.Officials said IUs will work with school entities to identify individuals who are interested in receiving the vaccine. Educators and school staff working with elementary education students, students with disabilities and English learners will be given the first chance to register.Officials said there will be at least one vaccination site in each IU region. Sites are expected to begin operations between March 10 and March 13.“We anticipate that the majority of these sites will
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BELLEFONTE As positive cases of COVID-19 continue to turn up in Centre County, the county commissioners agreed to extend a contract with AMI Expeditionary Healthcare to operate the walk-in testing clinic at the former Comcast/Xfinity facility down the road from the Nittany Mall.
The current agreement with AMI was set to expire on Saturday, Feb. 27. The new agreement will extend the contract an additional month, through Saturday, March 27.
However, the number of tests per day will decrease from 300 to 200, according to county administrator Margaret Gray.
“That will bring the cost down to an average of approximately $66,000 per week,” Gray explained. “It can actually drop lower than that if our numbers fall in terms of number of people being tested.”
Centre County Testing Site
The testing site will soon be moving to another site, though.
The county has funded testing centers operated by AMI Health Expeditionary Health Care at the Nittany Mall.
The latest is located inside the former Bon-Ton store site and in December, the number of folks being tested steadily increased.
That site reopened Tuesday and the county’s latest contract with AMI is through this month.
Thursday, the county commissioners announced the testing center will have to move after next Saturday, due to changes in the availability agreement with the mall.
Testing centers in State College and across the state are an important element in contact tracing programs that are tracking the COVID virus.