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The new online tool, Vaccine.UPMC.com, which is used for registering for COVID-19 vaccines is available across the UPMC system for those who fall under the phas
LANA MUTHLER lmuthler@lockhaven.com
LOCK HAVEN The COVID-19 vaccine was a hot topic again yesterday at the Clinton County commissioners meeting, as elected officials continue to show frustration in getting local residents vaccinated and push for more vaccine to be sent to this area.
“Clinton County is not getting hardly any,” commissioner Angela Harding said.
Although more than 300 people received vaccinations at Wednesday’s UPMC clinic at the Dunnstown Fire Hall, Harding explained that those vaccines are being sent to UPMC Williamsport and then distributed to Clinton County. She said the most recent vaccines coming to Clinton County were for Mill Hall Pharmacy and Weis markets.
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“The rate of increase in air temperature has accelerated in recent decades, and this increase in air temperature will affect the thermal habitat for fishes across the region,” Wagner said. “Temperatures are projected to continue increasing across the Midwest – with the greatest increases in average temperature expected in northern areas – so we wanted to know what was happening with walleye populations in the upper Midwest.”
Using data provided by the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of Natural Resources, researchers quantified annual walleye early-life growth rates from 1983 to 2015 in 61 lakes in the upper Midwest. Then they estimated the relationship between early-life growth rates and water growing degree days – an indicator of the temperature the fish are exposed to – over those 32 years. Importantly, they also examined how water turbidity influenced growth rates across the 61 lakes, correlated to an increased number of growing degree
CHASE BOTTORF cbottorf@lockhaven.com
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Two area residents prepare to get their COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine from UPMC nurses at the Dunnstown Fire Hall on Wednesday.
DUNNSTOWN Local folks have been waiting for weeks to get appointments for COVID-19 vaccines, frustrated that the shots weren’t coming to Clinton County fast enough and getting no answers as to when more doses of the much-wanted vaccinations might arrive.
For more than 300 people, the long wait ended Wednesday.
UPMC has been conducting local clinics in order to vaccinate elderly citizens across several counties in the state and yesterday a clinic was held in Clinton County with about 350 men and women over age 75 receiving the first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the Dunnstown Fire Hall.