That risk rippled outwards. A family member cohabitating with an essential worker has a 17% greater chance of testing positive. Other roommates face a 38% increase. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Had the HEZ become what it set out to be, there would have been a three-year head start on coordinating healthcare services for a poor community of color before the pandemic hit. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
Puentes de Salud cuenta con un suministro de entre 100 a 200 vacunas semanalmente en sus clínicas de vacunación. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
ith an eye toward expanding coronavirus testing in their part of the city, the University of Pennsylvania Health System partnered back in the fall with the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, a University City District workforce development program. The idea was to offer new opportunities to program graduates looking for jobs as Penn Medicine was looking for workers. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
CLS’s “COVID-19’s Impact on Race and Housing Security Across Philadelphia: Philadelphia Renters Report” shows that pre-existing housing insecurity and failures to address structural housing inequities left Black and brown communities more exposed to the virus.
Once the clinics are at full operating capacity, the city plans to inoculate 500 people per day open at each location, twice a week. At full capacity, the clinics should be processing 3,000 residents a week. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Anyone who lives and works in Philadelphia can indicate interest in getting the vaccine at the official city sign-up page or by calling the city’s COVID call center at 215-685-5488. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Prior to the clinic, Dr. Ala Stanford, founder of the group, said that the goal was to vaccinate about 2,000 people — the group surpassed that number before midnight. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium is going to be administering doses of the coronavirus vaccine from Friday until Saturday at Temple University’s Liacouras Center. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
As the vaccine rollout begins reaching home health care workers in Pennsylvania’s combined Phase 1A and 1B distribution, the chance at a vaccine comes after nearly a year of added complications around caregiving during the pandemic. For workers and clients alike, it’s another wake-up call to longstanding issues in the industry. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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