Bucks County Vaccine Clinics Open Tuesday: What To Know

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Three COVID vaccination clinics officially open in Bucks County on Tuesday at all three Bucks County Community College campuses.

The clinics collectively will administer 600 initial doses of Moderna vaccine per day by appointment to people eligible for the 1A phase of Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout. They will operate Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., contingent on adequate supplies of vaccine, at the campuses in Bristol, Newtown and Perkasie.

Vaccine recipients will be selected from a database of almost 200,000 people and businesses that have pre-registered for vaccinations coordinated through the Bucks County Health Department. Those in the 1A grouping who registered earliest will be summoned first, the commissioners said.

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The 1A category comprises healthcare workers, emergency medical workers, those age 65 and older, and those who are 16 to 64 and have health conditions meeting the 1A requirements. For more information about eligibility and to access the pre-registration link, visit Bucks County’s coronavirus vaccine information page.

Invitations are being sent out now by email, offering appointments at next week’s clinics, Interim Emergency Services Director Audrey Kenny said during a virtual news conference Thursday morning.

Emailed invitations will arrive from an address called info@trackmysolutions.us, Kenny said, while those who do not have access to email will be notified by phone.

Clinics will operate on all three community college campuses: the Upper Bucks campus at 1 Hillendale Road in Perkasie; the main campus at 275 Swamp Road in Newtown; and the Lower Bucks campus at 1304 Veterans Highway in Bristol.

At full capacity, each of the three community college sites should be able to vaccinate 500 people per day, or 2,500 per week. When that level is reached, the county plans to open three additional clinics at sites to be announced, raising county government’s vaccination capacity to 15,000 per week.

The county also intends to deploy two mobile vaccination strike teams capable of administering up to 150 doses per day at various locations.

“We’re doing everything we possibly can to make sure that we’re ready, when the vaccine starts to come in volume, to get as many people in the 1A phase vaccinated as quickly as possible,” said Commissioner Gene DiGirolamo.

The county clinics are opening during a time when new COVID infections are declining in the county and across Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 237 new infections in Bucks County on Wednesday for a pandemic total of 42,398. 42,161 The rolling, seven-day average of new cases is 215 per day.

Four COVID deaths were reported in Bucks on Wednesday, raising the pandemic total to 1,075. Ninety-four patients were hospitalized with COVID, 16 of them on ventilators.

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