Gov. Tom Wolf: Vaccine Is Strategy to Fight COVID-19, Not Shutdowns

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Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 09:13 AM
Wolf: Vaccine is strategy to fight COVID-19, not shutdowns
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf is brushing aside questions about whether he’ll issue more orders for shutdowns as cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 spread quickly and fill Pennsylvania’s hospitals with unvaccinated patients. Wolf, speaking on KDKA-AM radio in Pittsburgh, reiterated Tuesday that the vaccine is his administration’s strategy for fighting COVID-19. He says people need to get vaccinated. Wolf’s Department of Health expects new cases to peak in January, followed by a peak in hospitalizations in February and a peak in deaths in late February to early March. Hospitals hit by severe staffing shortages have been sounding the alarm as largely unvaccinated COVID-19 patients fill hospital beds.


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