Judy Lieberman loves her Sunbeam in Lower Merion.Jessica Todd and her husband, Ben, treasure their Americus in Collingswood.And Bill Haggerty said the Lexington he and his wife, Ashley, bought 13 years ago in Absecon “has really good bones and is a great home” for their family.“I fell in love with the details,” Ashley said. “The glass doorknobs, the high ceilings, the materials, and the .
Last week, when Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed the bipartisan bill requiring a science-based strategy to defeat COVID, he bragged about what a great job he’s done in the crisis. The tens of thousands of people who have been sick, lost loved ones, spent days trying to schedule a vaccination, lost their jobs, and still can’t get the unemployment benefits they’ve earned might disagree.
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Jenna Ramkhelawan, 12, gets a fist bump as she registers to receive the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in Miami. Her father Rajaroop Ramkhelawan watches at left.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in people as young as 12 in May, but if a young person in Pennsylvania wants the COVID-19 vaccine and their parents won’t allow it, there’s not much they can do right now. State law requires kids under 18 to have parental consent for most health care services, including vaccinations.
New legislation from state Sen. Amanda Cappelletti a Democrat who represents parts of Delaware and Montgomery Counties would allow people ages 14 and over to get any CDC recommended immunization without parental consent. The legislation will be modeled in part on an existing state law, which allows Pennsylvanians 14 and older to consent to inpatient mental health treatment without a parent or lega