Daily News | Philadelphians rejoice at return of St. Paddy’s parade, two years after it was canceled due to COVID
some experts caution the virus is not yet endemic. In fact, former President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for COVID, and nearly 2,000 people are still testing positive a day in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
“It’s tradition,” he said, standing with friends in the St. Patrick’s Church parish hall after Mass. “We’re all Irish Catholics, so we had to go to Mass. It’s all about camaraderie, being with the Irish community.” Nearby, Bridget O’Grady Green, 33, of Fairmount, watched with her father, Joseph Patrick O’Grady, 61, of Drexel Hill, with whom she first came to the parade as a child. On Sunday, Green and her husband, Andrew, brought their daughters, Camille, 3, and Lucy, 2. Last time they were at the parade, in 2019, Camille was a baby, they recalled; Now, she stood and watched the performers intently as she licked a lollipop.
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