The state-run regional vaccination clinic at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center is on a temporary hiatus until at least April 20 as Pennsylvania follows federal guidance to pause administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
“As soon as the federal guidance was issued we likewise followed suit and paused that clinic at this time until we await further guidance from the federal government,” Acting Secretary of Health Allison Beam said during a news conference on Tuesday.
The clinic, operated by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and Department of Health, opened on Friday and planned to vaccinate up to 600 people a day, five days a week, using the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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Volunteers from Centre Volunteers in Medicine prepare COVID-19 vaccines earlier this week at the Bryce Jordan Center.
UNIVERSITY PARK Penn State University’s multipurpose facility, the Bryce Jordan Center, will be the site for a large-scale regional COVID-19 vaccination clinic beginning on Friday, April 9.
The clinic will be operated by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Health as the state’s accelerated vaccination rollout plan continues.
According to a news release, the clinic will begin administering vaccines to those in the phase 1A and 1B eligibility starting on Friday, April 9. Pennsylvania residents in Phase 1C will be eligible to schedule vaccine appointments statewide beginning Monday and all adult residents will be eligible on April 19.
On Dec. 18, Mount Nittany Health doctors
administered the first COVID-19 vaccinations in Centre County. Starting with the State College-based health systems own direct care providers and staff, the effort soon expanded to other health care workers in the community.
Nearly four months later, as Pennsylvania’s eligibility guidelines have expanded, 48,651 people in Centre County have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and Mount Nittany has been the county’s largest single provider. It has administered more than 30,900 doses to community members and has another 5,000 future doses are scheduled. With Pennsylvania expanding eligibility to all adults by April 19 and production ramping up, many more are in the future.
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