February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the newly formed joint task force with the legislature today reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring that Pennsylvanians will have access to second doses of COVID-19 vaccine within the...
February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA — Pennsylvania’s Health Department is scrambling after 200,000 second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses were misallocated. The state says a communication breakdown is to blame, along with what they’re calling the perfect storm.
February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the newly formed joint task force with the legislature today reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring that Pennsylvanians will have access to second doses of COVID-19 vaccine within the CDC-recommended...
February 16, 2021
Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System dashboard, highlighting a seven-day case increase of 19,621, a...
February 13, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 13, there were 4,088 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 892,344. There are 2,548 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 12, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 12, there were 3,987 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 888,256. There are 2,687 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 12, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today issued an order directing vaccine providers’ administration of COVID-19 vaccines to ensure that Pennsylvanians are vaccinated as quickly and efficiently as possible. Governor Tom Wolf...
February 11, 2021
First Lady Frances Wolf discussed using art as tool to heal during the COVID-19 pandemic in a virtual conversation hosted on Facebook. This was the second conversation in a series titled, “The Bigger Picture”, an extension of One...
February 11, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The departments of Health (DOH) and Human Services (DHS) today provided an update on Pennsylvania’s progress administering COVID-19 vaccines to residents and staff of long-term and congregate care facilities eligible in Phase 1A via...
February 11, 2021
As the state continues to get vaccine to Phase 1A eligible Pennsylvanians, today Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Aging Robert Torres highlighted some of the community-based solutions that are working to help Pennsylvanians 65-plus access the COVID-19 vaccine. “We...
February 11, 2021
February 11, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 11, there were 3,978 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 884,269. There are 2,789 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 11, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today announced beginning Saturday, February 13, regional drive-thru, outdoor walk-up, and indoor walk-in COVID-19 testing clinics will be held in Berks, Indiana, Lackawanna, Lawrence, and Lebanon counties. The...
February 10, 2021
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday said his administration is forming a task force with House and Senate lawmakers from both parties to work on the challenging COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The Democratic administration has been criticized by lawmakers from both...
February 10, 2021
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A new task force aimed at tackling COVID-19 vaccination is set to meet this week. The first involves having more organized county-by-county data than what’s currently listed on the Department of Health’s website. He’d like to...
February 10, 2021
Harrisburg, PA — Black History Month is a time to celebrate the many contributions African Americans have made to our nation, but it is also a time to reflect and discuss the current struggles for racial equality. Today, CBS 21’s Talia Kirkland is taking a...
February 10, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 10, there were 3,378 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 880,291. There are 2,890 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 10, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today launched a new tool called Your Turn to help Pennsylvanians understand where they fall in the vaccine prioritization effort and to be alerted when it is their turn to schedule an...
February 10, 2021
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine appointment online is already hard for some. “There is a real digital divide that the Coronavirus has exacerbated by putting everything online. That means that we are excluding people who don’t use the internet,”...
February 10, 2021
Governor Tom Wolf announced that $145 million in funding will be distributed to all 67 Pennsylvania counties through the COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program to help support the commonwealth’s hospitality industry. Funding will be provided in the...
February 9, 2021
Pennsylvania’s now vaccinated 1 million people and the rate of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop. The state is now averaging 3,775 new cases over the last week, a 30% drop from the average a week ago. Over the last three days, there have been 11,309 new cases of...
February 9, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Agriculture today released data related to COVID-19 restaurant enforcement actions from February 1 – 7, 2021. The information is specific to COVID-19 mitigation requirements for restaurants, including social distancing,...
February 9, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today launched a new tool called Your TurnOpens In A New Window to help Pennsylvanians understand where they fall in the vaccine prioritization effort and to be alerted when it is their turn to...
February 9, 2021
HARRISBURG – February 9, 2021 – Today, Governor Tom Wolf announced the creation of a COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force to help streamline communications between the General Assembly and the state. The Wolf administration appointed State Senator Art Haywood...
February 9, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of State’s Bureau of Enforcement and Investigation (BEI) today released data related to COVID-19 enforcement actions from Jan. 31-Feb. 7. With the high number of COVID cases across the commonwealth, the Department of...
February 9, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 9, there were 4,088 additional positive cases of COVID-19, in addition to 2,504 new cases reported Monday, February 8 and 4,717 new cases reported Sunday,...
February 9, 2021
State Sen. Art Haywood and African-American Pennsylvania college students are scheduled to meet with Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) presidents to discuss racial discrimination and harassment on college campuses. The virtual campus setting...
February 9, 2021
While conversations with the entire General Assembly on the state’s vaccine plan will remain ongoing, Governor Tom Wolf’s Administration also sought to provide a mechanism for accurate, timely information sharing via a streamlined set of communicators between these...
February 8, 2021
Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System dashboard, highlighting a seven-day case increase of 20,204, a statewide...
February 8, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today shared its weekly update on Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing data and encouraged Pennsylvanians to download the COVID Alert PA app, as more than 778,000 have already done to...
