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The nonprofit Public Health Management Corp. offered vaccines to its 3,000-member staff, many of whom aren’t eligible yet.

On the state level, this kind of information is already published regularly.

Older Pennsylvanians, who are supposed to be among the first in line to get the vaccine, are also struggling with clunky and disjointed online signups.

WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek announced that assessment Tuesday at the end of a visit by a WHO team that is investigating the virus' origins.

Scientists say vaccinations need to be as fast as possible to prevent more contagious coronavirus variants from taking over.

Public officials celebrated Monday as New Jersey hit a milestone: More than one million vaccine doses have gone to residents, workers, and students across the state.

The “Momnibus” was originally introduced in March 2020 but got little traction because it was just days before the country was thrown full bore into the COVID-19 pandemic.

How long is the wait to hear back? Is it first-come, first-served? What about line-jumping? WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk wondered too.

30-year-old Philadelphia FIGHT provides health care and coronavirus testing. It wants people to know it is not involved with the similarly named start-up.

New Castle County used $5.5 million of its federal coronavirus relief money to fund the laboratory at the university’s northern campus.

With vaccine still scarce, and eligibility differing from place to place, some people have easier access to "extra" doses than others. Careful, ethicists warn.

Some experts see an opportunity to refocus U.S. testing less on medical precision than on mass screening that they believe could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

“I’m worried about Super Bowl Sunday, quite honestly. People gather, they watch games together. We’ve seen outbreaks already from football parties."

Because of the priority schedule for early eligibility, the gender imbalance is likely to continue for a while.

Bogus reminder emails are going out because Philly Fighting COVID never shut down its scheduling system.