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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health
Health

US faces ‘truly daunting’ challenges on needed COVID tests

Widespread availability of testing is seen as critical to reopening the economy because it would allow public health officials to identify and contain a rebound of the virus.

6 years ago

Dr. Faoud Ishmael
Health
Spotlight PA

Workers in Pa. with preexisting health conditions fear a call to return to work

With no guarantee they can collect unemployment if they refuse to go to work, immunocompromised workers fear a near-impossible choice: Risk losing their jobs, or their life.

6 years ago

A memorial at the spot where Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Ga.
Community

Ahmaud Arbery’s death raises echoes of US racial terror legacy

It took more than two months for Arbery's pursuers — who told police they suspected he was a burglar — to be arrested and taken into custody.

6 years ago

Protesters demonstrate at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, April 20, 2020, demanding that Gov. Tom Wolf reopen Pennsylvania's economy even as new social-distancing mandates took effect at stores and other commercial buildings. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Politics & Policy

GOP in power grab to rein in Dem governors on virus response

Republican-controlled legislatures are increasingly trying to strip Democratic governors of their executive authority to close businesses and schools.

6 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci
Health

3 members of White House virus task force in quarantine

The White House's concern about infection is another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Nelis Rodriguez poses at her home in Chicago, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Money

A distinct possibility: ‘Temporary’ layoffs may be permanent

If most layoffs become permanent, the severe recession the economy has slid into would likely last longer and the recovery would be slower.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Zoo Andean geese
Community

Shuttered Philadelphia Zoo celebrates new baby critters in Mother’s Day video

The zoo may be closed to humans during the pandemic, but that hasn't stopped animal moms and their newborns from celebrating this Mother's Day.

6 years ago

(David Maialetti/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health
Spotlight PA

Some Pa. counties push to exclude nursing home cases from reopening formula, but experts caution against it

Reopening too soon could exacerbate the already devastating death toll in long-term care facilities, they say.

6 years ago

(Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health
Spotlight PA

Pa. had early plan to protect nursing homes from the coronavirus, but never fully implemented it

Similar measures to those envisioned were later put in place, but only after widespread outbreaks were already underway.

6 years ago

Little Richard performs at the 93rd birthday and 88th year in show business gala celebration for Milton Berle
Community

Little Richard, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87

Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard's, told The Associated Press that Little Richard died Saturday morning.

6 years ago

In this April 3, 2020, photo, a technician holds blue preservation solution in a clean room where saliva collection devices are assembled at Spectrum DNA in Draper, Utah. The company has developed a test kit to detect the coronavirus in patients' saliva. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Health

Coronavirus update: FDA approves Rutgers saliva test; N.J. to get remdesivir from feds

The test will enable people to collect their own saliva at home and send it to a lab for results, while the drug has helped some COVID-19 patients improve.

6 years ago

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Health

Who’s getting supplies of the COVID drug remdesivir? Pa. pharmacists, hospitals want to know

Gilead has donated its existing supply, to be distributed by AmerisourceBergen. That company says the government decides which places can get the drug.

6 years ago

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An artist's rendering of a site redesign by Community Design Collaborative’s Design SWAT team. (Courtesy of Community Design Collaborative)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

How designers are remaking spaces for our new socially distanced lives

Modular systems, flexible spaces and ‘human ingenuity’ on the rise as architects solve new social distancing puzzles.

6 years ago

Yvanna, 13, (right), and Emilia, 12, (left) play with soccer balls on their block. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

How to survive a summer without city pools? Open streets for play, says Philly Parks Commissioner

With city pools closed, Philly’s parks commissioner wants to expand Playstreets, a summer program that closes neighborhood streets to traffic.

6 years ago

Listen 1:51
Pennsylvania Gov Tom Wolf
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Crayons, flowers, taxidermy: Wolf releases list of ‘life-sustaining’ business waivers

Gov. Wolf’s administration faced criticism that its business waiver process during the shutdown seemed arbitrary and its decision making was opaque.

6 years ago

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