CP photo: Aaron Warnick Lindsey Williams According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pennsylvania ranks 34th among the states in the number of coronavirus vaccine doses administered per 100,000 people. Allegheny Health Network recently told WTAE that the large hospital group has stopped scheduling for doling out additional vaccinations because they depleted their entire supply and they “do not know when we are getting more. As expected, Republicans have been quick to criticize Gov. Tom Wolf (D-York) over Pennsylvania s efforts to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine. However, recently, a Pittsburgh-area Democratic lawmaker has also called out the state’s vaccine rollout, and other area Democrats have started to join her.
Screenshot taken from Facebook State Sen. Doug Mastriano (left) and Rick Saccone (right) In March 2018, former state Rep. Rick Saccone (R-Elizabeth) lost a special election to Conor Lamb (D-Mt. Lebanon) in a district that President Donald Trump won in 2016 by about 20 points. It was one of the biggest upsets in the Trump-era, and some Republicans blamed Saccone for a weak campaign that allowed an insurgent Lamb to secure a narrow victory. Since then, Saccone’s political career has tumbled and basically fallen apart. He ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary election later in 2018 for another congressional seat, then started a blog called “Veritas 007” that trafficked in conspiracy theories. He regularly attempted, unsuccessfully, to get Trump’s attention on social media by tagging Trump, seemingly to have the pre