Topic: Covid Vaccine
Where’s Our Vaccine Mandate, Mayor Kenney?
Since New York required vaccines for city employees, shots surged 40 percent. Is it time, Philly 3.0’s engagement director asks, for the same here, too?
By Jon Geeting
“A Massive Amount of Heartbreak”
A combination of the contagious Delta variant and high numbers of unvaccinated people is causing Covid cases to rise again. A critical care physician at Penn Medicine helps us understand how worried we should be—and what we can do
By Katherine Rapin
The Phillies Strikeout
Half the team is unvaccinated. Here's why Phillies manager Joe Girardi has failed the test of leadership by saying it's a "personal choice."
By Larry Platt
Medicine of and for the people
Is a vaccine collaboration between Penn and West Philly faith leaders a roadmap to more equitable healthcare?
By Katherine Rapin
Playing the Vaccinations Race Card
As citywide vaccination rates drop, a veteran political consultant reflects on the absurdity of the city’s failed attempts at vaccine equity
By Ken Smukler
Vax to Win
Want to boost Covid vaccination rates in Philly? We should take a cue from any number of state and local governments around the country—Free cars! Savings bonds! A million bucks!!— and incentivize that shot
By Christine Speer Lejeune
This Election Day, Let’s Vote and Vax
Want to increase vaccination rates and voter turnout? Philly 3.0’s engagement director has an idea for that
By Jon Geeting
Yo, Mayor Kenney—Vaccinate Election Workers!
In every other county, poll workers qualify for vaccines. Philly 3.0’s engagement director launched a petition urging Philly to do the same.
By Jon Geeting
“Putting Race At The Forefront”
At Penn Medicine, white workers were three times more likely to sign up for a vaccine than Black workers. Dr. Florencia Greer Polite and fellow Black physicians set out to change that with a program getting noticed across the country
By Katherine Rapin
The Answer To Our Vaccine Debacle
Locally and nationally, getting shots into arms has been a disaster. A longtime college president says the answer to preventing this in future is clear: education
By Elaine Maimon