Pennsylvania nears 1 million virus cases amid vaccine push
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press
Pennsylvania is nearing 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus amid rising infections and word of a setback in the state’s accelerating COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The Department of Health reported another 4,667 new cases Wednesday for the highest single-day number since early February. That brought Pennsylvania to within a few hundred of the million-case milestone. Daily infections have risen more than 10% in two weeks, with hospitalizations beginning to drift up, too. With health officials on alert, Pennsylvania learned that it will not get nearly as many fresh doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as the federal government initially projected.