{"id":104560,"date":"2020-12-28T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104560"},"modified":"2020-12-28T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T02:30:13","slug":"allentown-health-bureau-scheduling-covid-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104560","title":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN HEALTH BUREAU SCHEDULING COVID VACCINATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Health Bureau is now scheduling appointments for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for qualifying healthcare staff in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with regulations established by the CDC, the Bureau is taking appointments for COVID vaccination for members of the following groups ONLY:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Licensed medical professionals &amp; care staff including but not limited to: EMS professionals, dentists, podiatrists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, primary care physicians, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Home health agency staff including hospice, visiting nurses, physical therapy, occupational health, home health aides, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of these groups only, may call 610-437-7760 ext 0 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to schedule an appointment to receive the vaccine. Vaccinations will begin on Tuesday, December 29.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau is receiving a limited supply of the Moderna vaccine from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMike Moore<br \/>\nCommunications Manager<br \/>\nMayor&#8217;s Office<br \/>\n 435 Hamilton Street<br \/>\n Allentown, PA 18101<br \/>\n Mike.Moore@allentownpa.gov<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Allentown Health Bureau is now scheduling appointments for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for qualifying healthcare staff in Lehigh County. In accordance with regulations established by the CDC, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALLENTOWN HEALTH BUREAU SCHEDULING COVID VACCINATIONS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ahb-covid.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}