"It could take a significant amount of time to immunize everyone in Pennsylvania. I anticipate that we’re going to be wearing masks in 2021, well into — maybe until the end of — 2021," she said.

State-licensed pharmacists and pharmacy interns will be able to order and administer COVID-19 vaccines when they become available thanks to new guidance through the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

INOVIO, the Doylestown-based pharmaceutical company, has completed the first phase of its clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine. All 40 healthy volunteers in the trial have now received their first dose, INOVIO says.