The city this week also is launching an incentive program to encourage people to get vaccinated. But you can’t get back to normal if you jump the gun and put the cart before the horse.” “So it’s just being patient, and getting to where we got to be, to take everything away and get back to normal. They didn’t want to close anything down,” Kenney said. If we listened to the restaurateurs two years ago, we’d have 2,000 more people dead in the city. We will get there, and we’ve gotten where we are now because we’ve done the things that were hard to do that everybody back two years ago told us not to do. And for all the refusals to mask mandates, vaccine mandates, threatening school boards, all this is just total nonsense. “It’s science, but it’s not rocket science. “The key to all of this is being disciplined, following the rules, getting vaccinated, and wearing your damn mask,” he said. Kenney said the future of pandemic mitigation efforts will depend on the public’s commitment to safety recommendations. Bettigole said that may come in a few weeks, but can’t make any promises. She said Philadelphia must report fewer than 100 cases per day in order to lift mask mandates. We’re really hoping not to have to go backwards and try to do this carefully so that we don’t have to go backwards.” “Hopefully, we will get enough vaccine to other parts of the world that we can stop these new variants from emerging.
It does depend on what other variants emerge, so I can’t promise that we won’t have to reinstitute these restrictions after we roll them back if we were to have a severe new variant - that could happen,” Bettigole said. “We’re really making good progress on vaccination. The city can move up and down the tier based on pandemic trends. The city is moving into Level Two, which requires masks indoors but does not impose a vaccine mandate.
Philadelphia officials are now using a four-level tier system based on COVID-19 data to help them decide what restrictions are necessary. “There’s simply no better place to see a game, concert, or show than Wells Fargo Center, and the atmosphere that made Broad Street famous is finally coming back.” “We’re ready to start getting back to normal, and so are our fans,” said Valerie Camillo, president of business operations for Wells Fargo Center and the Philadelphia Flyers. The stadium’s vax mandate originally went into effect in January. The change also means sports fans and concertgoers at the Wells Fargo Center will no longer have to show their proof of vaccination to get in the doors. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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