Lehigh Valley Health Network will hold its next COVID-19 mass vaccination drive-through event in Northampton County at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem Township on Thursday, April 29.

With more and more people getting vaccinated, companies are starting to think about how they can begin in-person meetings again and how they can do it safely.

Lehigh Valley Health Network vaccinated a one-day high of 9,286 people on April 14. It was the first time the Allentown-based network was administering vaccines at all of its new community clinics.

St. Luke’s announced the opening of their COVID Recovery Clinic at a virtual press conference on April 15. The Clinic, offered network-wide at the Bethlehem-based St. Luke’s University Health Network, is dedicated to the treatment of post-COVID patients with extended symptoms.

Pennsylvania has administered first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to 35.4% of its eligible population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

The State Department of Health announced Wednesday that it was accelerating the vaccination timetable for those in Phases 1B, 1C and 2, but will still be targeting workers in certain industries for vaccines.

Bethlehem’s OraSure Technologies Inc. has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization of its COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.

Lehigh Valley Health Network’s effort to get out the COVID-19 vaccine now has some new wheels – thanks to a donation from Bennett Toyota in Allentown.

After being ranked 30th in the nation for vaccine distribution, the Pennsylvania Health Department said the roll out of vaccines is increasing and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now moved the state to no. 2 in the nation for the number of vaccines administered in the last seven days.

The findings of a study commissioned by the Berks County COVID-19 Response Task Force will serve as both a contemporary planning tool and a historical document, according to Kevin Murphy, president of the Berks County Community Foundation, which partnered with the United Way of Berks County and the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance in August to form the task force.