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Health

‘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.

5 years ago

A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Health

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.

5 years ago

Carli Lloyd celebrates scoring in the Tokyo Olympics
Community
6abc

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.

5 years ago

Leyondo Dunn stands outside Gratz high school
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Philly gun violence leaves pain, numbness

A “perfect storm” of deadly factors helped revive an old nickname for Philadelphia popularized by its detractors — “Killadelphia.”

5 years ago

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Science
NJ Spotlight

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.

5 years ago

From left, Health Corps member Veronica Villalobos answers vaccine questions from teenagers Samantha and Fernanda Del Angel. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Health

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.

5 years ago

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Megan and Bob White with their three kids in their Chester County backyard. Work on the Mariner East 2 pipeline has turned half the property into a construction site, and the project has been plagued by sinkholes and schedule overruns. (Katie Meyer/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Jobs 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.

5 years ago

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Amy Highland holds various strains of trillium
Science

How the beautiful, ultra-rare trillium plant was brought to Delaware

WHYY ‘Morning Edition’ host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Mt. Cuba’s Amy Highland about tracking down the plant.

5 years ago

Listen 4:53
In Camden on August 6, Antioch Manor resident Don Brown stands at the window in his apartment; from it, he watched a murder take place earlier this year. (April Saul for WHYY)
Community

‘I don’t want to live in a slum’: Little help yet for residents of troubled Camden senior housing

Recent meetings between lawmakers and property managers have done little to allay fears or fix safety issues rampant in Camden’s senior housing complexes.

5 years ago

A health care worker fills a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health
Health Desk Help Desk

What immunity did having COVID-19 give me? Do I still need a vaccine?

Is the immune response robust enough that those who’ve had COVID can avoid getting vaccinated? Many people asked WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk.

5 years ago

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Health
6ABC

Philly archdiocese reinstates obligation to attend Mass on Sundays

At the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, many churchgoers say they feel safe attending Mass.

5 years ago

A family eats breakfast in front of homes destroyed by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
Community

‘We’ll fight through this’: Haitians in Philly scramble to organize aid after earthquake, avoid mistakes of 2010

The humanitarian failure that was relief efforts following the last devastating earthquake in 2010 is weighing heavily on the minds of Haitians in the Philly region.

5 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as President Joe Biden receives a briefing in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting hurricane preparedness. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Health

U.S. mulls COVID vaccine boosters for elderly as early as fall

Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans.

5 years ago

SEPTA trolley tunnel (SEPTA)
Community

SEPTA is flummoxed by a driver’s trolley tunnel detour

There was no damage after a car drove onto underground trolley tracks in Philly early Saturday morning.

5 years ago

A U.S.Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Helicopters are landing at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as diplomatic vehicles leave the compound amid the Taliban advanced on the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Politics & Policy

Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul

Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.

5 years ago

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