Bucks Co. To Close 1 Mass Vaccination Site, Keep 4 Open

BRISTOL, PA — Bucks County officials announced Tuesday that the mass vaccination clinic at Bucks County Community College in Bristol will officially close Saturday, May 29. It has been in operation since February.

The move comes as more adults are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Pennsylvania and new cases numbers are plummeting statewide, county officials said in a news release. Bucks County will now focus new attention on community outreach.

The other four county-run locations – the Perkasie and Newtown community college campuses, Neshaminy Mall and the Warwick Square shopping center – will continue, according to the county.

To see an interactive map showing Bucks County’s COVID testing locations, please click here.

Starting June 1, those sites will operate from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Walk-ins are welcomed at all sites, and the public will have a choice between the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the two-dose Pfizer vaccine.

The Warwick Square site, which Bucks County Health Department staff has operated, will be overseen by the county’s vaccine contractor, AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, while county staff puts greater attention on community outreach. County officials said informational tables at libraries and pop-up clinics at fire departments and other community sites are expected to be part of the health department efforts.

To see an interactive map showing Bucks County cases reported in the past 30 days, please click here.

According to the county, almost 531,000 doses of vaccine have been administered by providers throughout Bucks County — about 140,000 of them at county-run sites. More than 232,000 people have been fully vaccinated in Bucks, and more than 320,000 have received at least a first dose of vaccine.

The week ended with 37 COVID patients in Bucks County hospitals, the fewest since the week before Thanksgiving. Four patients were on ventilators. The county’s test positivity rate also dropped to 3.4 percent last week, well below the state average of 5.3 percent and another sign county officials said that health officials are gaining the upper hand over COVID spread.

Statewide, more than 10 million Pennsylvanians have been vaccinated. About 51 percent of the adult population has been fully vaccinated, and 56 percent of the entire state population has received at least a first dose.