
Health
The Latest: Trump extends federal stay-at-home guidelines
President Trump is extending federal guidelines recommending people stay home and away from one another for another 30 days as the coronavirus continues to spread.
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Gov. orders Delaware visitors to self-quarantine; Pa. reports first COVID-19 case in state prison
Delaware Gov. John Carney is ordering anyone coming from outside the state to self-quarantine for 14 days.
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Pennsylvania is now streaming its daily coronavirus briefings with Spanish captions
The Wolf administration added Spanish captions to a web stream of its daily coronavirus briefing Friday.
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Rutgers report estimates N.J. hospitals could be tens of thousands of beds short
Updated analysis suggests shortage could be far worse with less stringent social distancing
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Trump considering quarantine for NY, NJ and Connecticut
President Donald Trump said he was considering a quarantine as early as Saturday for coronavirus hotspots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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Use this map to track Philly’s positive COVID-19 cases by ZIP code
The city health department is updating numbers daily.
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Immigrant detainees stage hunger strike at York County Prison
Up to 180 people held by federal authorities are refusing to eat in protest of what they say are insufficient precautions against the coronavirus.
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Post-shutdown aid: Philly to distribute food; N.J. homeowners to get mortgage relief
City residents can pick up one box of food per household on Mondays and Thursdays. New Jersey homeowners will get a 90-day grace period on home loans.
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Pennsylvania corrections officers, advocates worry a prison coronavirus outbreak is inevitable
As of early Friday evening, there were no reported cases of the coronavirus inside the state prison system, either among those incarcerated or corrections officers.
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These ‘escape communities’ avoided death as Philly succumbed to the 1918 flu pandemic
Bryn Mawr College and Princeton University were quarantine and social distancing early adopters.
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With the rate of new coronavirus cases increasing across the United States, some of the country’s top scientists are racing to understand how bad the outbreak is going to get.
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University of Pennsylvania researchers help develop rapid at-home COVID-19 test
The test’s creators at Connecticut-based medical technology incubator 4Catalyzer hope to start producing the kits within weeks, pending FDA approval.
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Food donations flood hospitals as pandemic surge begins
As the COVID-19 pandemic ramps up, Philly area hospitals begin accepting daily donations of food for staff.
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Listen 3:45Watch live: White House coronavirus task force holds news briefing
The White House task force is expected to give an update on the nation’s current novel coronavirus situation as the outbreak spreads.
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N.J. death toll tops 100 as coronavirus stretches hospitals increasingly thin
"These aren’t abstract numbers,’ Gov. Phil Murphy said. ‘These are our neighbors, our family, our friends."
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