Health
Pa. will spend up to $5 million on a new contract to ramp up cleaning in the Capitol Complex after a state custodial worker in Harrisburg tested positive for COVID-19.
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Pennsylvania reports no virus deaths; first time since March
Pennsylvania health officials on Monday reported no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 for the first time in more than four months.
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WHO chief warns ‘there might never be’ a silver bullet for coronavirus
Despite progress made on a COVID-19 vaccine, "there's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," the World Health Organization's director-general warned.
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Delaware establishes new program to retrain workers laid off during the pandemic
Delaware will use $10 million in CARES Act funding to provide job training and employment resources to those laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Which Philly coronavirus test sites get results the fastest? Here’s what they said
Long delays make it harder to contain pandemic spread — so the city is buying new machines to process samples locally.
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Eagles coach Doug Pederson tests positive for COVID-19
Pederson, 52, is the second NFL head coach to test positive for the novel coronavirus.
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Birx warns U.S. coronavirus epidemic is in ‘new phase’ as cases and deaths climb
The U.S. has surpassed more than 4.6 million confirmed cases of the virus and 154,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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MIS-C: Doctors make progress on COVID-related illness affecting kids
While doctors say they have more information on how to treat MIS-C, it's still a mystery why some children get it and others don't.
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Listen 2:26Early in pandemic, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans
Doctors who faced the first coronavirus onslaught reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to save lives in the dark.
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Public health expert calls to repair distrust in a COVID-19 vaccine
Officials say a promising coronavirus vaccine is on its way in 2021. But does that matter if only half of Americans say they're willing to get such a vaccination?
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Phillies get OK to train at Citizens Bank Park after negative COVID-19 tests
Activity at Citizens Bank Park had been canceled after three people tested positive for COVID-19 since last weekend.
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One man’s COVID-19 death raises the worst fears of many people with disabilities
The hospital said it made a humane decision to end treatment. His widow says doctors ended his care because they underestimated the life of a man with disabilities.
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Delaware panel calls for ‘culture of compliance’ to handle COVID-19 resurgence
Delaware’s fight against an expected resurgence of the coronavirus this fall needs to be a cooperative effort, a state panel told Gov. John Carney Friday.
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Cape May County’s ‘Safely Together’ campaign accelerates
Cape May County's "Safely Together" public health campaign is entering a second phase amid the traditional peak of the Jersey Shore tourism season.
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COVID-19 hospital data system that bypasses CDC plagued by delays, inaccuracies
After the Trump administration moved hospital COVID-19 data reporting to HHS, bypassing the CDC, the new data system has been rife with erratic updates and anomalies.
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