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Bicyclist Struck and Killed Near Eakins Oval; FDA/CDC Lift Pause on Vaccine; 3 Federally Indicted

by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 04/25/21 10:19 pm | updated: 04/25/21 10:19 pm

A bicyclist was struck and killed on Sunday morning, 4/25, while riding in the Art Museum area. It happened around 11 a.m. The woman on the bike was trying to cross from the bike lane on Spring Garden Street to Kelly Drive when her back tire was hit by a black BMW. The 74-year-old woman was thrown from her bike and onto the windshield. She was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead. The driver remained at the scene, no charges have been filed. This area has been a problem for both motorists and bicyclists in the past with all of the merging and shifting traffic. The investigation is ongoing and being led by the Accident Investigation Division.

Like large roads throughout Philadelphia, Eakins Oval is not safe for bicyclists and the current infrastructure is inadequate. Reinvest in Vision Zero https://t.co/6AMioYwiHE @PhillyMayor @PhillyOTIS @PhilaParkandRec
— Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia (@bcgp) April 25, 2021

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have decided to lift the 11-day pause on vaccinations using the single dose Johnson/Johnson vaccine. A U. S. health panel of advisers recommended the resumption saying the its benefits outweigh the risks. The government found 15 cases of a highly unusual kind of blood clot out of nearly the 8 million people who received the J&J vaccine. Three of those people died. They were all women, mostly under 50. Officials are working on a warning label for the shot to make people aware of the rare possibility of blood clots. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Philadelphia are making plans to resume administering the shot. This vaccine is useful in immunizing vulnerable and hard to reach populations because it is only one dose and it does not require special freezing storage.

Three men have been indicted by federal prosecutors for setting off homemade explosives in several robberies during the civil unrest in Philadelphia last October following the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbitter Williams announced the charges against 21-year-old Cushmir McBride, 34-year-old Kamar Thompson, 22-year-old and Nasser McFall. They are accused of setting off explosives and blowing up an ATM inside a Target in Port Richmond on October 28, 2020. They made off with cash. The next day, they blew up an ATM at a Wawa in Port Richmond. They then attempted two more ATM robberies with explosives at a Wawa in Philadelphia and one Claymont, DE. McFall is additionally charged with blowing up an ATM at a Wells Fargo Bank in Philadelphia in December. "If you engage in violence and commit a federal crime during periods of civil unrest hoping the turbulence will afford you some cover, rest assured that it will not. As this Indictment shows, we will find you, charge you, and you will face the consequences of your actions in federal court," Williams said in a statement.

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