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Julio Polanco, a behavioral care specialist at Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, stands in line at Philadelphia’s community vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Medicine
Public Health

‘I’m very happy to be here’: Hundreds of home health workers get vaccinated at Convention Center

The 2-day mass-vaccination site is for health workers unassociated with hospitals. The hope is to even out the racial distribution of vaccine recipients.

5 years ago

Syringes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen in a vaccination room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
National
Public Health

Biden to speed release of coronavirus vaccines

After a glow of hope when the first coronavirus vaccines were approved last month, the nation's inoculation campaign has gotten off to a slow start.

5 years ago

State officials encourage businesses to earn what Gov. John Carney calls the
Delaware
Economy
Public Health

Delaware eases COVID curfew on restaurants, bars

Delaware bars and restaurants can now stay open past 10 p.m., but Gov John Carney’s stay-at-home order and restrictions on large gatherings remain.

5 years ago

John
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. accelerates coronavirus vaccinations with first ‘megasites’

The Morris County site, in a former Sears store, will begin by giving shots to about 1,000 people per day. A Gloucester County site also opened Friday.

5 years ago

Demetrio Olivieri, a firefighter with Philadelphia’s Ladder 24, receives the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 6, 2021 from Captain April Smallwood.
Radio Times
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

The latest on COVID and vaccines

We look at the vaccine rollout and why it's behind schedule as deaths, hospitalizations, and infections continue to surge.

Air Date: January 8, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
Philly Fighting COVID has launched the city's first vaccine signup. (COVIDReadi)
Health Care
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

Pre-register for the vaccine with Philly Fighting COVID, opening a clinic in Center City

When you sign up, you’ll get an alert as soon as your “phase” is eligible for inoculation.

5 years ago

A border collie dog with a stethoscope and dressed in doctor costume
The Pulse

What’s Best for Our Pets

Owning a pet means making decisions that affect their health — from what they eat, to whether and how much they exercise, to how they s ...

Air Date: January 8, 2021

Listen 49:09
Emma, a Welsh Springer Spaniel. Bidding a beloved animal farewell is hard. Knowing when it’s time can be even harder.  (Courtesy of Grant Hill)
The Pulse
Home & Family
Mental Health

The long, sad process of saying goodbye to a pet

Bidding a beloved animal farewell is hard. Knowing when it’s time can be even harder.

5 years ago

Listen 8:27
Registered nurses swab patients during testing for COVID-19 at Mifflin Square Park
Health Care
Public Health

Waiting several days for COVID-19 test results? Check with the lab

Part of the delay in delivering results may not be because of overwhelming test volume at labs, but slow communication to patients.

5 years ago

Medical personnel prone a COVID-19 patient
National
Public Health

US registering highest deaths yet from the coronavirus

Skyrocketing deaths and infections there are threatening to force hospitals to ration care and essentially decide who lives and who dies.

5 years ago

School hallway
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. pushes schools to reopen; new COVID-19 variant detected in commonwealth

Someone in Dauphin County tested positive for the variant “after known international exposure,” the Department of Health said in a news release.

5 years ago

Nurse Reynaldo Pella, left, was one of five staff members to simultaneously receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. The hospital received almost 1000 doses of the vaccine in the middle of a snowstorm which blanketed much of the Northeast in snow. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. coronavirus update: Vaccination of first responders to begin

New Jersey officials have announced the start of the next phase of vaccinations against the coronavirus with police and fire professionals.

5 years ago

Licensed practical nurse Starlette Sumpter administers COVID-19 vaccinations at a clinic
Health Care
Pennsylvania
Public Health

‘Today we take the fight to the virus’: Montco opens first COVID vaccine clinic

Phase 1A health care workers who live or work in Montgomery County were inoculated by appointment only at the community college in Blue Bell.

5 years ago

a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Broke in Philly

Pa. coronavirus update: DHS Secretary urges those in need to apply for benefits

Congress has expanded eligibility for SNAP, Secretary Miller urges Pennsylvanians to apply.

5 years ago

Battalion Chief Lisa Forrest receives the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 6, 2021 from Captain April Smallwood.
Philadelphia
Public Health

Fighting vaccine skepticism, Philly fire department presses forward with shots

About 100 emergency medical workers have gotten a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But about half offered the vaccine have declined, officials said.

5 years ago

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