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Coronavirus update: Philadelphians struggling to pay water bills get a reprieve

Philadelphians who are behind on their water bills don’t have to worry about the city shutting off service until at least July 10.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Military

AP fact check: Trump’s false ‘Choice’ on vets’ health care

President Trump is putting forth a false “Choice" when he boasts about a program aimed at improving veterans' health care by steering more patients to the private sector.

5 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
New Jersey
Politics
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Coronavirus update: N.J. unemployment soars to 15.3%, GOP sues Murphy

Murphy’s coronavirus orders violate the state constitution, the GOP says, and the distinction between businesses is “completely arbitrary.”

5 years ago

Maria Buono wears homemade mask in Pike Creek, Delaware
Home & Family
Public Health

How should I clean and store my face mask?

Masks are designed to prevent the wearer from possibly spreading the virus to others or being exposed themselves. But how should they be washed and stored?

5 years ago

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Delaware
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Rental restrictions in Del. ‘severely undercut’ tourism, hoteliers say

Hotel operators are urging Delaware Gov. John Carney to allow them to reopen for business.

5 years ago

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Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

PPE vending machines are coming to Philly, thanks to mask-dispensing startups

They’re already a thing in Las Vegas and New York City.

5 years ago

Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Aging
Public Health

‘We don’t even know where they got this information’: Pa. nursing home data release is riddled with errors

Inconsistent recordkeeping and mismatched data sources created an inaccurate picture that many say misrepresents the situation on the ground.

5 years ago

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Government Accountability
Medicine
Public Health

Don’t treat COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, American College of Physicians says

The American College of Physicians says there are risks to using the anti-malarial drug on patients, and no benefit. Monitored clinical trials are advised.

5 years ago

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Walmart coronavirus drive-thru testing
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. partners with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics for drive-thru COVID-19 testing

Gov. Phil Murphy announced a partnership with Quest Diagnostics and Walmart to provide seven self-administered testing sites across the state.

5 years ago

Ranvir Singh, a registered nurse in the  intensive care unit at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey, tends to a patient March 19. 2020. (Jeff Rhode/Holy Name Medical Center.)

WHO: Trump cut to US funds would hit world’s most vulnerable

The comments came on a day when a total of 106,000 COVID-19 cases were reported to the WHO over the last 24 hours, the most in a single day since the pandemic began.

5 years ago

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Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

Leading Philly’s coronavirus response: Meet 15 key people in the city health department

The team has been working nearly 24/7 since the pandemic landed.

5 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Delaware
Economy
Public Health

Coronavirus update: GOP lawmakers demand earlier, wider Del. reopening, call Carney moves ‘unconstitutional’

The Republicans who signed the letter to Gov. John Carney want him to start the first phase of reopening this weekend, not his June 1 target date.

5 years ago

A poster for New Jersey’s “Mask Up!” campaign (Image courtesy of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection)
New Jersey
Public Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. launches ‘Mask Up!’ campaign

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced a new initiative to encourage wearing masks in public areas.

5 years ago

Johnson & Johnson baby powder
Business
New Jersey
Public Health

Johnson & Johnson to stop selling talc-based baby powder in US, Canada

The product faces nearly 20,000 lawsuits claiming it caused ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley speaks to reporters
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

16 weeks of crisis: Inside the Philadelphia health department’s war on the coronavirus

“You can study a pandemic till you’re blue in the face, but you never know what it’s going to be like until it happens.”

5 years ago

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