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Pennsylvania to offer weekly COVID-19 testing for schools
School districts will have to opt in, and parents must give consent to the weekly classroom testing.
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With school scheduled to open in two weeks, the local teachers union’s president Jerry Jordan called the delay “simply absurd.”
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Haitians in N.J. and Del. hope for the best as post-earthquake recovery efforts continue
Haitians in New Jersey and Delaware hope to help family and friends back home as the recovery continues.
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‘My mind’s made up’: Trusted vaccine messengers in Camden have their work cut out for them
An effort to get Camden barbers to act as trusted messengers for the COVID-19 vaccine shows how hard fighting misinformation really is.
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Listen 4:51Bucks tweaks COVID guidance to schools following outcry over health commissioner’s emails
Emails from Bucks County’s health commissioner have been shared widely on social media over the last week, fueling an already heated debate over COVID safety plans in schools.
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Listen 1:28Biden says he stands ‘squarely behind’ Afghanistan decision
Biden said he will not repeat mistakes of the past and did not regret his decision to proceed with the withdrawal.
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The grants, which range in size from $10,000 to $48,400, will go to 10 different community-based groups.
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Black Doctors Consortium, pharmacies, offering COVID-19 booster for immunocompromised
The BDCC joins major pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, in offering the boosters to help curb the risk of the delta variant for people who are medically vulnerable.
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‘Frustrating and concerning’: Montco urges masks, vaccinations as delta variant spreads
Montco is requiring masking in government buildings, and recommending them everywhere else, as the delta variant continues to spread and push up new cases of coronavirus.
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Breakthrough COVID cases see sharp rise in Del. as officials emphasize risk among unvaccinated
The overwhelming number of COVID cases and hospitalizations remain among the unvaccinated, though Delaware is seeing a sharp rise in breakthrough cases.
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From Delran to Olympics: Carli Lloyd announces retirement
The Burlington County, New Jersey, native who became a global soccer superstar and Olympic gold medalist has announced her retirement from the sport.
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Philly gun violence leaves pain, numbness
A “perfect storm” of deadly factors helped revive an old nickname for Philadelphia popularized by its detractors — “Killadelphia.”
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Summer is at its peak. So is the spotted lanternfly
Following the lanternfly’s arrival to New Jersey, the state’s Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine zone that encompassed eight N.J. counties.
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Members of fledgling Health Corps help at vaccine clinics, target disparities in Delaware
New Castle County is using $675,000 of its federal coronavirus relief funds to pay for the pilot program that it hopes to expand.
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Listen 2:23Jobs or the environment? Ahead of 2022, Pa. Dems thread needle on ‘false choice’
Debates about fracking and pipelines have created a conundrum for Democrats in the past few decades, as they court both environmentalists and organized labor.
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