Peiffer is a Democrat, but her concerns are also shared by Pennsylvania Republican voters.
Diane Hilbert, a 78-year-old retired state worker and Republican in Annville, Lebanon County, has spent an entire day at times trying to find vaccines for herself and her 81-year-old husband.
She s called chain pharmacies and private pharmacies alike and Hilbert has reached a conclusion: Trying to get shots is a futile effort.
Hilbert blames Wolf, a Democrat from York County, for the vaccine rollout in Pennsylvania.
Wolf has blamed the Trump administration overpromised on the federal vaccine supply. The governor has also appeared to own some of the blame for Pennsylvania s slow vaccine distribution.
Nancy Peiffer tries to assemble her words.
She s battling Parkinson s Disease, the frustration of being unable to find a COVID-19 vaccine and nearly a year of separation from her daughters who live in Florida.
An ongoing pandemic and partisan rancor are wearing her down. This isn t the United States I grew up in, she said on the phone last week through tears. It just isn t.
The Jonestown, Lebanon County, resident never imagined at 85 that she would have to think about politics so much or a virus that has yet to be tamed.
Peiffer is worried a worsening partisan divide is getting in the way of important work that needs to be done.