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Bellefonte High goes remote for three days

BELLEFONTE — Bellefonte Area High School has gone remote. Late Tuesday afternoon, students, parents and families in the school district were notified that the school would be closed for the rest of the week. All sports and extracurricular activities are postponed as well due to the increasing numbers of COVID-19 in the district. “Since this Monday, we have confirmed five positive COVID cases with high school students. These cases are on our current 14-day rolling average. We have also seen a general increase in cases in the past week and a half in the community,” high school ...

Arizona third-grader holds food drives to help in pandemic

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Neighbors walked by during their morning stroll, passing families waved from their bikes and drivers slowed down long enough to read the hand-drawn sign — “Dylan’s Food Drive.” The poster was taped to two PVC pipes that were stuck inside construction cones ...

White House offers new tax credit to help spur vaccinations

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced new employer tax credits and other steps to encourage people reluctant to be inoculated to get the COVID-19 vaccine as his administration tries to overcome diminishing demand for the shots. The moves came as Biden celebrated reaching his latest goal of administering 200 million coronavirus doses in his first 100 days in office. With more than 50% of adults at least partially vaccinated and roughly 28 million vaccine doses being delivered each week, demand has eclipsed supply as the constraining factor to vaccinations in ...

Pennsylvania plans to send vaccine to more providers

Pennsylvania plans to greatly expand its network of COVID-19 vaccine providers as demand for the lifesaving shots begins to slow and existing vaccinators order fewer doses, the state’s top health official said Tuesday, potentially making it easier for people in underserved areas to schedule an appointment. The state had slashed the number of providers receiving vaccine by more than two-thirds as the Wolf administration, under pressure to speed shots into arms, redirected the state’s limited supply to a couple hundred hospitals, federally funded health centers, municipal health ...

UPMC: Plenty of vaccine for Dunnstown clinic

LOCK HAVEN — It seems it wasn’t long ago that locals were complaining there wasn’t enough vaccine coming into Clinton County to vaccinate its residents against COVID 19. On Monday morning, however, the county commissioners were told there is plenty of vaccine available from UPMC Susquehanna’s program for local people, but people aren’t calling to schedule appointments and receive shots. UPMC Susquehanna’s Becky Levi updated the commissioners on the vaccine being distributed from the Dunnstown Clinic at its weekly vaccination events at Monday morning’s commissioners’ ...

Companies, unions offer COVID-19 vaccines

Marie Watson wanted to be among the first in line when she and other essential workers became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine — and with good reason. The maintenance parts buyer for a Mission Foods tortilla plant in Pueblo, Colorado, had lost her father to COVID-19 in the fall and was told by a doctor last year that she herself almost certainly had the virus. So when her union, the United Food Workers and Commercial Workers, secured appointments for the plant’s 200 workers, she jumped in her car and drove to a nearby drive-thru clinic for the first of two doses. “There ...