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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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A health care worker displays a COVID-19 vaccination record card
NPR
National
Public Health

A pharmacist is charged with selling COVID-19 vaccine cards for $10 on eBay

Tangtang Zhao, 34, allegedly sold 125 authentic Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccination cards to 11 buyers in March and April.

5 years ago

Clinical nurse Sophia Collins oversees a vaccination clinic
National
Public Health

U.S. health officials call for booster shots against COVID-19

The plan, as outlined by the CDC and other top authorities, calls for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.

5 years ago

Students work on assignments during a summer school program
Keystone Crossroads
Government
K-12
Public Health

Bucks County changes school COVID-19 guidance again to recommend masking

The Bucks County Health Department said it was changing course because local hospitals said any pediatric COVID-19 cases could stress the system.

5 years ago

Vials for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines
NPR
National
Public Health

The Biden administration may recommend COVID boosters after 8 months

A source familiar with the discussions says administration health experts could make the recommendation as soon as this week.

5 years ago

Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium
Philadelphia
Public Health

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.

5 years ago

A person holds up a sign that says,
Pennsylvania
Public 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
Delaware
Public 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

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

Listen 2:23
A health care worker fills a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Public 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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(6ABC)
Public Health
Religion
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

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)
Public 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

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters after a marathon “vote-a-rama” to advance President Joe Biden’s federal priorities, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. The Democratic leader discussed the $3.5 trillion framework for bolstering family services, health, and environment programs, the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, and the importance of voting rights. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Government
Health Care
Public Health

Schumer calls for federal crackdown on fake vaccine cards

The Senate’s top Democrat says federal law enforcement officials need to crack down on fake COVID-19 vaccination cards being sold online.

5 years ago

Utibe R. Essien, M.D., M.P.H., is a health services researcher at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. (Courtesy of Utibe Essien)
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

VA patients of color less likely to be prescribed blood thinners for a common cardiac issue, study shows

Even with uniform access to medication and insurance, patients of color at the VA were less likely to get standard-of-care meds for atrial fibrillation.

5 years ago

A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Three county educators have died of complications from the coronavirus. (Johnny Louis/Getty Images)
NPR
K-12
Public Health

3 Florida educators die of COVID-19 within 24 hours as schools prepare to reopen

Less than a week before schools are set to reopen in Florida's Broward County, local union officials say three educators have died of complications from the coronavirus

5 years ago

Kenyans queue to receive AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine donated by Britain, at the Makongeni Estate in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. An international system to share coronavirus vaccines was supposed to guarantee that low and middle-income countries could get doses without being last in line and at the mercy of unreliable donations but it hasn't worked out that way and in late June alone, the initiative known as COVAX sent some 530,000 doses to Britain – more than double the amount sent that month to the entire continent of Africa. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
International
Medicine
Public Health

Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shots

In late June alone, the initiative known as COVAX sent some 530,000 doses to Britain – more than double the amount sent that month to the entire continent of Africa.

5 years ago

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