Health

The county applied about $4.8M in American Rescue Plan Act money to salaries and remaining 2021 costs and shifted $3.9M to design and IT purposes.

Announced with less than 24 hours’ notice, even backers see the new rules as another example of the city reacting to the virus, not getting ahead of it.

Only about 23% of those currently pregnant in the U.S. have been vaccinated against COVID-19, statistics show.

With the Phillies surging, the vax status question seems to have faded into the background.

Nonetheless, delta is still highly transmissible. It's one of the most contagious respiratory viruses that we know of.

The cards need to be protected and available. You can carry the paper card with you, plastic coated perhaps. But many people stash it away and show a digital copy.

Effective midnight, businesses must require masks or confirm COVID-19 vaccine status of employees and customers. Masking will be required at non-seated outdoor events.

Delaware’s largest hospital system says about 70% of its 14,000 employees and contractors are inoculated — but that’s not enough.

“Don’t procrastinate, vaccinate” urges new Montgomery County campaign aimed at getting young people vaccinated.

About 25,000 employees of Pennsylvania’s prisons and state health care and congregate care facilities have about a month to get vac ...

Gov. John Carney extended Delaware’s public health emergency, ordering students and teachers to mask up regardless of vaccine status.

Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant.

Working from home meant adjusting for aches and stiffness. Now, the body has to reacclimate. Here are tips for a comfortable transition.

The Montgomery County district is one of the latest to tweak its back-to-school plans, based on new recommendations from local and federal officials.

A lawyer representing a group of N.J. parents suing over school masking policies is vowing to fight Gov. Phil Murphy’s latest executive order to require them this fall.