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Pennsylvania officially lifts indoor face mask mandate
Businesses still maintain the option of requiring employees, guests, or customers to wear face masks, health officials stressed.
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What about the COVID vaccine and cancer, organ transplants, autoimmune conditions?
WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk answers more questions about the COVID-19 vaccine from people with very specific concerns about its effect and effectiveness.
5 years ago
Listen 4:17As variant rises, COVID-19 vaccine plan targets ‘movable middle’
The message is about public health, not ideology. The focus is a group health officials term the “movable middle” — some 55 million unvaccinated adults seen as persuadable.
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With food insecurity still on the rise, N.J. may create cabinet role dedicated to fighting hunger
New Jerseyans in need continue to seek help from food pantries as the Legislature passes a bill to create the cabinet-level position of a Food Insecurity Advocate.
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Patience and a good eye: Building an art collection without breaking the bank
Sherry Howard has been combining small auctions and estate sales for years, and now has an impressive Black art collection. She explains how she did it.
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Camden moves to ban cannabis businesses to implement its own rules in the future
Officials face an Aug. 22 deadline under the measure giving the Cannabis Regulatory Commission control over the N.J. recreational marijuana market.
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N.J. first lady tackles maternal and infant health care in Mini Family Festivals
New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy launches Mini Family Festivals to connect families with state and local resources as part of the Nurture NJ initiative.
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Cradle grave gardens are brought back to life
A popular practice for memorializing loved ones in the late 19th century has been brought back in York.
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Painting a Parkway mural, to welcome Philly back and encourage vaccination
Artist Felix St. Fort designed the ‘Welcome Back, Philly’ ground mural as part of a ‘Vax Up Philly’ collaboration with the Health Department.
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J&J agrees to pay $230M to settle New York opioid claim
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million to New York state to settle claims that the pharmaceutical giant helped fuel the opioid crisis.
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Newspaper gunman insanity case starting after three years
Opening statements in the second phase of a trial are scheduled for Tuesday to determine whether Jarrod Ramos was legally sane at the time of the mass shooting.
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New ruling requires Pa. courtrooms to return to ‘pre-pandemic’ operations
The order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court comes amid declining COVID-19 infections, and mostly mirrors what county court systems were already doing.
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Southern Delaware businesses slowly overcoming COVID challenges
As COVID cases in Delaware continue to fall, small businesses in southern Delaware are still working to rebound from the economic challenges of the past year.
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Rutgers Law launches New Jersey Innocence Project to help wrongfully convicted people
Rutgers Law School in Camden has launched a statewide effort to help exonerate people who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit.
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‘Everybody has a home here’: Upper Darby is having its first Pride festival
UDTJ — which stands for Understanding, Devotion, Take Action, and Justice — is the group behind the event on Sunday, June 27.
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