Fayette County is leading the charge in Pennsylvania's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
According to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Fayette County has administered nearly 34,000 doses of the vaccine, ranking 9th in the state out of 67 counties in rate of vaccinations per 100,000 people.
County Commissioner Scott Dunn credited the county's task force which created a centralized registration system that launched a month ago.
"Instead of you making a call or a series of hundreds of calls or waiting online, you're in line once you're on our registry, and you can just wait for one of our providers to call you," he said.
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Dunn says about 90 percent of the feedback he's received has been positive, and other counties have expressed interest in learning more about their system.
"The CCAP (County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania) actually came back to us and asked Fayette County to have a webinar, which we did (Monday)," he said.
"It was attended by other counties."
While supply still remains an issue at the state level, Dunn expressed concern over supply of first doses decreasing in Fayette County.
He said for the second week in a row, WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital did not receive first doses, while Highlands Hospital received about 1,000. Both hospitals are two of the county's leading vaccine providers.
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"If you want a mass clinic like we had been doing where we were doing 2,000 people in a weekend, these numbers aren't going to cut it," he said.
Dunn said second doses are not impacted by the recent supply decrease.