Pennsylvania's program to vaccinate teachers and other school workers, starting in the youngest grades, immunized more than 6,500 people in its first days,
Pennsylvania expects to vaccinate or schedule COVID-19 vaccines for everyone in the 1A eligibility category by the end of the month under President Bidenâs rush to put the shots in the arms of every American.
Gov. Tom Wolf made the announcement Friday, adding that police officers, firefighters and grocery store workers will be added to the initiative in two weeks.
âWeâre within striking distance of the finish line,â Wolf said.
The state has been hampered in getting through the 1A category that includes people 65 and older due to a short supply of vaccines.
A large shipment last week of the new one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine allowed the state to roll school employees into the 1A category, with local schoolteachers starting to receive doses Saturday.
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State officials on Friday announced that 6,500 teachers have been vaccinated under the education initiative that began this week. After that is complete, further efforts will target essential workers.
The initiatives will supplement Pennsylvania’s ongoing immunization efforts. At least 72,000 people are getting a shot daily, the state health department reported. Almost 10% of the state’s approximately 13 million people have received all required doses, including statistics from Philadelphia, which receives its own allotment.