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Philadelphia to close FEMA vaccine site at the Convention Center in light of Derek Chauvin verdict

The FEMA site at the Convention Center is usually in operation for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.

A FEMA worker directs visitors outside FEMA's mass vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
A FEMA worker directs visitors outside FEMA's mass vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer

Philadelphia’s largest vaccine provider, the FEMA-run mass clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, would cease operations Tuesday in advance of a verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced through Twitter.

No further information on the mass clinic, which has been vaccinated thousands daily, was included.

The FEMA site at the Convention Center is usually in operation for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.