City of Philadelphia - File #: 200520

• File #: 200520
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 10/1/2020
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Title: Authorizing the Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings to evaluate the City of Philadelphia's plan for distributing, tracking, and otherwise managing the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Brooks, Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Green

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
2/5/2021	0	Committee on Public Health and Human Services	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/5/2021	0	Committee on Public Health and Human Services	HEARING HELD
2/5/2021	0	Committee on Public Health and Human Services	RECESSED
11/19/2020	0	Committee on Public Health and Human Services	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/19/2020	0	Committee on Public Health and Human Services	HEARING HELD
11/19/2020	0	Committee on Public Health and Human Services	RECESSED
10/1/2020	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
10/1/2020	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Authorizing the Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings to evaluate the City of Philadelphia's plan for distributing, tracking, and otherwise managing the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Body
WHEREAS, In 2020, COVID-19, commonly referred to as the Coronavirus, a highly contagious and potentially life-threatening virus with conditions characterized as coughing, fever, and upper respiratory irritation or distress, began spreading rapidly throughout the United States; and

WHEREAS, Although Governments adopted travel restrictions, stay at home orders, quarantine requirements, social distancing and mask wearing procedures, the virus has taken the lives of an estimated 998,000 people worldwide. Over 205,000 residents of the United States have died and more than 17,000,000 have been infected; and

WHEREAS, The City of Philadelphia's Health Department has worked tirelessly to meet testing demands, address treatment needs and treatment capacity issues, strengthen the emergency service response systems, and provide increased information to the public; and

WHEREAS, Health officials worldwide have been working to prepare for and respond to the development and deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine; and

WHEREAS, The United States CDC has asked for COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans from every city and state in the country after releasing the "COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for Jurisdiction Operations". Vaccine distribution plans are due to the CDC by October 16, 2020; and

WHEREAS, The City of Philadelphia is well positioned for the effective roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine as a result of PhilaVax and the formation of a Vaccine Advisory Board to advise on medical and population level concerns related to the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine . With 800 medical providers reporting to the PhilaVax system, more than 95-percent of Philadelphia's residents' immunizations are currently tracked in a secure database managed by the City. The C...