The University of the Sciences (USciences), one of the city’s neighborhood mass COVID vaccination sites, will hold two walk-up vaccine clinics this month – on April 13 and April 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The clinics will be held at USciences’ Athletic/Recreation Center (ARC), 730 S. 43rd St.

All city-run mass vaccine clinics are open to Philadelphia residents only. Residents who meet the Philadelphia Phase 1a, 1b and 1c criteria are currently eligible to get vaccinated. UPDATE: Philadelphia opened COVID vaccine eligibility to all adults (aged a6 and older) on April 16.

When going to a city-run vaccine clinic please make sure to bring your ID or a piece of mail or utility bill that has your address and name on it. Continue Reading

The School District of Philadelphia has launched an online dashboard that tracks confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in schools. The dashboard includes information on the number of tests performed and positive cases in schools, as well as cases confirmed off-site that have been reported to the District.

Dashboard users can track COVID-19 cases overall in the District and individually per school.

Initial dashboard data shows a very low COVID positivity rate in the District. So far, there have been 64 confirmed COVID-19 cases in District schools, with less than 1 percent of students and staff testing positive for the virus each week over the last four weeks through April 3. Continue Reading

The city’s Department of Public Health is opening three walk-up vaccine clinics in three neighborhoods, one of them in West Philly, to reach out to more residents over the age of 65 who haven’t yet received their COVID vaccine shots.

Starting today (Wed, April 7), Health Center 3 located in Clark Park at 43rd and Chester will host walk-up clinics every Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for those who are 65 and older. Continue Reading

Philadelphia officials have announced the date of the start of Phase 2 of COVID vaccine eligibility, when everyone over the age of 16 will be eligible to get vaccinated. The date is April 19, the same as in Pennsylvania, and it is two weeks earlier from the previously estimated date – May 1.

Starting Monday, April 12, Philadelphia will expand vaccine eligibility to more groups of essential workers under the current Phase 1C. These groups include construction workers, transportation workers, social service workers, finance and legal workers, as well as people working in higher education and IT & telecommunications, and more. Phase 1C began yesterday, but only four groups of essential workers in this phase are currently eligible to get vaccinated: postal and package delivery workers, sanitation workers, utility workers, and maintenance and janitorial staff. Continue Reading

Philadelphia will enter the next phase of COVID vaccine eligibility, Phase 1c, beginning Monday, April 5, the city’s Department of Public Health announced today. This phase includes essential workers with lower risk of coronavirus exposure. The following four groups of essential workers are being prioritized within this phase and will be eligible to receive the vaccine starting this Monday:

• sanitation workers
• maintenance and janitorial workers
• utility workers
• postal and package delivery workers

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The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has expanded the list of COVID vaccination clinics around the city and has added more clinics in West Philadelphia. A new city-run COVID vaccination site has opened at the Salvation Army (5501 Market St.).

The new site is open every Friday through at least April 30 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is operating mostly by appointment. Walk-ups are possible after 3 p.m. if there are any unused doses left, according to a staff member.

Only eligible Philadelphia residents can get vaccinated at city-run clinics (check eligibility criteria here). Please make sure to bring your ID or a piece of mail with your address.

For more information on city-run COVID vaccination clinics, go here.