A 150-foot tall elm tree that toppled Tuesday along Carlisle Street in Harrison couldn’t have been positioned more perfectly. Inches either way and the 110-year-old tree would have smashed roofs, broke windows or at least tore gutters away from the two homes it landed between. “If this had to happen,
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The Pfizer vaccine will be available at a vaccination clinic at Seton Hill University this week.
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Westmoreland County officials announced Tuesday it will open a coronavirus vaccine clinic later this week at Seton Hill University in Greensburg.
The clinic, with vaccines provided by Walmart, is set to vaccinate up to 1,400 residents over three days, starting April 9, according to Public Safety Director Roland Mertz.
“We’re trying to make more of these happen,” Mertz said.
Appointments for first doses of the Pfizer vaccine are available for three dates, April 9, 13 and 14. To register for an appointment call 1-800-753-8827 and select Option 1 when prompted. Mertz said on-line registration is not available for the clinic.
There’s nothing like a disaster to show you what you have and what you need.
Westmoreland County Commissioners said Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic has shown them what they don’t need: a county health department.
For almost a year, the county has responded to the increasing challenges of covid-19 without that central hub of organization and information that neighboring Allegheny County has to provide assessment and guidance.
Allegheny is authorized by state law to have a health department just like Bucks, Chester, Erie, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties and Allentown, Bethlehem, Wilkes-Barre and York cities. Westmoreland, like other counties, is not included in the 1976 law that gave that OK. Asking for a change doesn’t seem like much of a problem.
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Westmoreland County officials said Tuesday that plans have been formulated to vaccinate nursing home patients and staff and first responders once they are notified that doses are available to distribute locally.
Distribution of about 97,500 vaccine doses in Pennsylvania started this week, and the first could arrive in the county on Friday, according to Excela Health officials. Those doses are expected to go to front-line medical workers.
State health officials also identified nursing home residents and staff as among the first to be vaccinated. That includes about 2,000 potential recipients in Westmoreland, according to county Public Safety Director Roland Mertz.