Health
High-end medical provider let ineligible people skip COVID-19 vaccine line
One Medical has been allowing ineligible people to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Staff questioned what they saw as inappropriate, internal documents obtained by NPR show.
3 years ago
Pa. coronavirus update: Montco now pre-registering vaccinations by phone
Montgomery County residents who pre-register by phone will get a call back notifying them of openings for vaccination appointments.
3 years ago
FDA says J&J 1-dose shot prevents COVID; final decision soon
An analysis by U.S. regulators says Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine protects against COVID-19.
3 years ago
Here’s how to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Delaware
Trying to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex counties? WHYY has answers.
3 years ago
Here’s how to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania
Trying to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine in Bucks, Berks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia counties? WHYY has answers.
3 years ago
Philly Fighting COVID CEO lashes out at ‘competitors’ in apology email to donors
Andrei Doroshin did not elaborate on what he was sorry for. Instead, he pointed to unnamed “minor administrative decisions” as fodder used to discredit PFC.
3 years ago
Pa. coronavirus update: Philadelphians with HIV/AIDS now eligible for vaccine
Cases have continued to fall over the past two months, and the city has seen an 80% decrease in weekly case counts since the peak in mid-December.
3 years ago
‘They spread nurses dangerously thin’: Pa. nurses unions unite to back bills on staffing levels
Unions from around Pennsylvania that represent health care workers are throwing their support behind a set of safe-staffing measures.
3 years ago
‘The people live here’: First Philly-run mass vaccination clinics target underserved neighborhoods
Residents in Phase 1B say they’ve had a hard time signing up for COVID-19 vaccines. The city hopes to change that with three centrally located clinics.
3 years ago
More slots open at Dover speedway for second vaccination shots
The event at the speedway best known for NASCAR races had previously been open to a select group. Now anyone who has received the first shot can try to get an appointment.
3 years ago
“Under Our Roof:” Rep. Madeleine Dean and son Harry Cunnane on addiction and recovery
PA Congresswoman Madeleine Dean and son Harry Cunnane talk about Harry's battle with addiction and his path to recovery, a story they share in their book, "Under Our Roof."
Air Date: February 23, 2021 10:00 am
Listen 49:02‘To me he’s not a number’: Families reflect as US nears 500,000 COVID-19 deaths
Family members of those who've died from COVID-19 reflect on the milestone of 500,000 U.S. deaths, and how their individual loss fits within the magnitude of that number.
3 years ago
America’s pandemic toll: In one year, half a million lives
As the year unfolded, Associated Press photographers formed a pictorial record of suffering, emotion and resilience. It shows the year that changed America.
3 years ago
Side effects, transmission, efficacy: What do we know about the COVID-19 vaccine now?
WHYY’s Help Desk Health Desk looked into how ongoing research and months of real world distribution has changed what we know about the vaccine.
3 years ago
Listen 5:36U.S. coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000
The figure surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu and pneumonia combined.
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