CASTLE SHANNON, Pa. — The Allegheny County Health Department will start giving out Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at it’s clinics.
The shots will be administered next week at the Castle Shannon vaccination site along Library Road in the South Hills.
The Pfizer vaccine is slightly different from the Moderna vaccine the county has been giving out.
The second shot can be given in a window of three to six weeks.
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This comes as Pfizer and Moderna are testing third doses of their vaccines.
They are doing this to see how the vaccines perform against new COVID-19 variants, some of which are more contagious.
There are currently three cases of the U.K. COVID-19 variant in Allegheny County.