covid vaccine
Didn’t Get an Email After Submitting a Vaccine Interest Form? The City Promises You’re on the List
Philadelphia’s vaccine rollout has been — how to put this charitably? — a national embarrassment. The first online form where people could register their interest […]
Here’s Where to Get a COVID Vaccination in Philly
Last updated on April 30, 2021. If you’re reading this, we have good news to share: You can officially get the coronavirus vaccine. On April […]
The City Now Has a (Very Tentative) Timeline for When You’ll Be Vaccinated
The experts have been saying for a few weeks now that COVID-19 trends for Philadelphia look good. The latest computer models predicted declines in cases, […]
Some Good COVID News, For a Change
Between the Philly Fighting COVID fallout and the health department sharing new details about its vaccine rollout, it’s been a week full of vaccine news. […]
5 Questions About Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate, Answered
Over the weekend, Johnson & Johnson announced promising results from the third and final phase of clinical trials for its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The […]
Got a Shot From Philly Fighting COVID? Here’s What to Do Now
In the days since the city cut ties with Philly Fighting COVID, the since-disgraced start-up that ran Philadelphia’s first mass-vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention […]
Who, Exactly, Is Philly Fighting COVID?
Andrei Doroshin is 22 years old, working toward his degree at Drexel, and a C-suite executive in three different businesses: a real estate firm (CEO), […]
A Penn Behavioral Economist on Ways Philly Could Speed Up COVID-19 Vaccinations
Though multiple COVID-19 vaccines are currently being distributed and administered across the United States, the overall rollout has been slow and uncoordinated. This has presented […]
Philadelphia Health Department Severs Relationship with Philly Fighting COVID
The city health department is severing its vaccine partnership with Philly Fighting COVID effective immediately, spokesperson Jim Garrow said in a statement on Monday evening. […]
Here’s Who’s Next in Line to Get the COVID Vaccine
1. The list of Philadelphians eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine is about to get a lot bigger. Health commissioner Thomas Farley announced the next group […]
Why Is Most of Philly’s COVID-19 Vaccine Still Sitting in Storage?
The nationwide rollout of a coronavirus vaccine was never going to be easy. That much we knew. But if the obvious problem was thought to […]
Black Americans Don’t Trust the COVID Vaccine. It’s Up to Doctors to Change That
As the first COVID-19 vaccinations are being administered in America, a sense of relief has come over me. This feels like the beginning of the […]
Behind the Scenes of the First COVID-19 Vaccination at Einstein Medical Center
Dave Young woke in the middle of the night on Wednesday with a panicked thought: “Oh God, the freezer!” This was the super-cold freezer, the […]