When Moderna vaccine supplies came up short in Delaware County in late February, government and the private sector got creative—fast, writes Maria Panaritis for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

County officials and Penn Medicine got together and in five days opened a Pfizer vaccine clinic in Radnor. It administers 2,000 doses a week.

“We in Delaware County have had to be fairly creative and agile,” Delaware County Councilman Kevin Madden explained.

The Penn Radnor collaboration, he said, “was another example where we had to think about partnerships to help us deal with changing [pandemic] circumstances.”

The county needed more freezer capacity to store the Pfizer vaccine, which requires lower temperatures.

Penn Medicine shared its medical and surgical facility in Radnor and moved a high-level freezer from downtown to Radnor.  A clinic was born on Feb. 26.

 “It was great. Both teams, we met,” said Delaware County COVID Director Rosemarie Halt. “I brought my logistics, operations and clinical staff out…We developed a logistics plan very quickly. And part of this was, [the county] had already run several sites so far and we knew what it looked like. … Both teams worked really hard.”

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Penn-Radnor vaccine partnership.