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The disclosure that the city didn t require contracts for vaccine administrators comes one day after it ended the relationship with a business called Philly Fighting COVID.
The city dumped Philly Fighting COVID over privacy and data concerns after it became known that the organization is for-profit.
The city health secretary said he will look at better ways to check up on organizations before partnering with them. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
On Tuesday, amid questions of the vetting process that the Philadelphia Public Health Department uses to evaluate vaccine partners, city officials acknowledged that there are no contracts with organizations administering the vaccine on behalf of the city.
After seeing patients and taking risks all year, these doctors have been left out of the vaccination process
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Pennsylvania s coronavirus vaccine drive has private doctors waiting behind other health-care workers
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By JASON LAUGHLIN | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Published: December 31, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) Doctors, nurses, and staff at private practices and clinics across Pennsylvania have been left guessing when they would get access to a COVID-19 vaccine, even as they regularly interact with patients infected with the coronavirus. Even physicians who are on staff with a hospital system not on the facility s payroll but able to access services and equipment for their patients have largely been left out as those institutions have had free rein to determine which of their employees can have access to limited vaccine doses.