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Bucks County reports no COVID deaths last week

The seven-day average of new cases dropped to six per day

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For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, no deaths were reported among people infected with COVID in Bucks County.

Additionally, the seven-day average of new cases dropped to six per day. Just 33 new infections were reported in Bucks last week, the fewest since the outset of the pandemic.

Hospitalizations remained in single digits, with nine COVID patients in Bucks County hospitals, one of whom is on a ventilator.

Bucks County Health Department Director David Damsker said the COVID vaccine is proving itself effective in preventing serious cases and deaths. The health department, he said, is not aware of any vaccinated person in the county who has died from the virus, nor of any vaccinated person placed on a ventilator in the county.

Bucks County has exceeded President Joe Biden’s goal of having at least 70 percent of adults partially or fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 4, according to the CDC. Almost 78 percent of Bucks County residents ages 18 and older have received at least one dose of vaccine, while 63 percent of adult county residents have been fully vaccinated.

Statewide, more than 75 percent of adult Pennsylvanians have been partially or fully vaccinated. Pennsylvania is among 18 states to have already reached the goal.

The county’s four mass vaccination sites remain open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Saturday, July 3, when sites at the Perkasie and Newtown campuses of Bucks County Community College will close. Clinics at Neshaminy Mall and the Warwick Square shopping center will continue on a reduced schedule, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, when the county reopens July 6 after the holiday weekend.

Shots are available at all sites without appointments required. All locations offer both the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the two-dose Pfizer vaccine.

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