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A person takes COVID-19 test at mobile testing site near Grand Central Terminal on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in New York. The omicron variant of COVID-19, which had been undetected in the U.S. before the middle of this week, had been discovered in at least five states by the end of Thursday, showing yet again how mutations of the virus can circumnavigate the globe with speed and ease

Health Desk Help Desk

What do I need to know about the omicron variant?

Is omicron more contagious? Does omicron cause more severe illness than delta? WHYY's Health Desk Help Desk shares what you need to know about the fast-spreading variant.

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Chairman of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, speaks during a hearing at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Politics & Policy

New front in Pa. GOP election ‘investigation’ draws challenges

It is another step driven by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud.

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Education

The Philadelphia Tribune

Philadelphia skills training programs can lead to jobs with higher pay

Philadelphia’s business community is joining with community groups and universities to offer skilled training programs to fill much-needed positions.

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Lina holds her baby boy, Osman, as he undergoes treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Ataturk National Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. According to U.N. figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger, including 8.7 million living in near famine. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Politics & Policy

Philly activists help organize White House rally to combat starvation in Afghanistan

A rally outside the White House demanded the Biden administration ease sanctions in Afghanistan, to avoid millions of deaths by starvation.

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Amy Brandwein, chef and owner of Centrolina, prepares a dish in her restaurant kitchen, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Washington. While restaurants in the U.S. and United Kingdom are open without restrictions and often bustling, they are entering their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic anxious about what’s ahead. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Health

Restaurants anxious as omicron, high food costs take toll

They’re squeezed by labor shortages and skyrocketing food costs and the omicron variant is looming.

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Emmanuel Jenkins said he was grateful to receive his booster shot at home

Health

He has cerebral palsy, and lauds state program to vaccinate him against COVID-19 at home

The state has partnered with independent pharmacies to put shots in the arms of vulnerable people at their homes.

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Community

6abc

Officials: Police-involved shooting leaves 1 man dead in Vineland, New Jersey

Officials say one officer of the Vineland Police Department fired his service weapon, fatally wounding an unidentified male.

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People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021 is set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on “Saturday Night Live,” but the surging omicron variant of the coronavirus means there won’t be a live audience to see it happen.

Arts & Entertainment

‘SNL’ ditches audience, limits cast and crew amid omicron

The sketch comedy show announced Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew.

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Free rapid, at-home test kits were available at a city-run vaccine clinic in the Harrowgate neighborhood Saturday.

Health

Philly launches COVID test giveaways at Saturday vaccine clinic. 9 more are scheduled next week

Participants were limited to two free kits, each of which contains two tests. The goal is to increase testing amid the current COVID surge.

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President Joe Biden arrives at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. Today is the anniversary of Neilia and Naomi Biden's death

Politics & Policy

Biden marks anniversary of 1972 car crash that killed wife

President Joe Biden on Saturday is commemorating the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter.

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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines sit ready for use at a Dallas County Health and Human Services drive up vaccine site in Mesquite, Texas, Nov. 30, 2021. While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S. There is much that is unknown about omicron, including whether it is more contagious than previous versions, makes people sicker or more easily thwarts the vaccine or breaks through the immunity that people get from a bout of COVID-19

Politics & Policy

OSHA vaccine mandate penalties to start Jan. 10

The federal agency separately says there will be no citations of companies regarding its testing requirements before Feb. 9.

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Health

Philly company Spark Therapeutics investing $575M toward gene therapy center on Drexel’s campus

Construction is set for late 2022. The center aims to bring gene therapy experts together to treat conditions like blindness, neurodegenerative disease.

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Health

6abc

The COVID-19 variant omicron now reported in New Castle and Montgomery Counties

The variant has infected four people in New Castle County, Delaware and one person in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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File photo: A worker passes a Dominion Voting ballot scanner while setting up a polling location at an elementary school in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta on Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Politics & Policy

New front in GOP’s election ‘investigation’ draws protests

State lawyers asked a court Friday to stop a digital data exchange scheduled for Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania’s sparsely populated Fulton County.

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In this 2020 photo, COVID-19 test kits are laid out on a table at the testing site at 2600 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Camden, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Health

Free at-home COVID tests kits available in New Jersey

You do not need an email address and no credit card is required. Officials say the new program is to increase access and availability of tests.

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