Health

Unions from around Pennsylvania that represent health care workers are throwing their support behind a set of safe-staffing measures.

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.

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.

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."

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.

As the year unfolded, Associated Press photographers formed a pictorial record of suffering, emotion and resilience. It shows the year that changed America.

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.

The figure surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu and pneumonia combined.

"We need a credible, open, transparent international investigation led by the World Health Organization," Jake Sullivan said in an interview with CBS' Face the Nation.

Black residents make up a little under half of Washington’s population, but constitute nearly three-fourths of the city's COVID-19 deaths.

The rotating clinics will be located in Kensington, North Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia, with plans to vaccinate high-priority city residents eligible in Phase 1B.

The “vax-a-thon” was Philly’s first 24-hour vaccine clinic and the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium surpassed their vaccination goal before midnight.

Pennsylvania health systems believed they were following state orders when they used vaccines that were supposed to be set aside for people awaiting their second doses.

The downtown Philadelphia convention center can handle vaccinating 6,000 people daily from the coronavirus, officials said.

New Jersey did not receive about 230,000 first and second COVID vaccine shots this week because of weather-related delays in other parts of the country.