FAIRMOUNT - There is growing concern over the COVID vaccine and the issue is the vaccine is taking longer than anticipated.
Some are trying everything they can to keep it moving and get as many people vaccinated as possible. One group actively participating in moving the vaccine along is the Black Doctors Consortium.They came on foot, in cars and in large numbers to Girard College in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood on the Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday for COVID-19 testing."I lost my mother-in-law last year to COVID. It’s personal and real important for me to know what’s going on.
Know what I \mean," asked Tony Mapp.In any other day, on the MLK holiday, Girard would be a place for ceremonies marking the achievements of the slain civil.