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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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Mohamed checks the COVIDWISE app on her phone
Innovation
Public Health
Technology

How the COVID-19 alert apps work

Pennsylvania and Delaware have released apps to help with contact tracing. Will the strategy work?

6 years ago

A patient receives a shot in a clinical trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine. U.S. intelligence officials say Russian hackers are attempting to break into U.S. health care organizations working on a vaccine.
Government Accountability
Medicine
Public Health

Philly’s role as national COVID vaccine pilot site already over

The CDC invited Philly and 4 states to help develop U.S. strategy for distributing a vaccine. After a brief consult, a playbook was released nationwide.

6 years ago

The exterior of SEPTA's HQ building
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA: Dire finances prevent agency from paying out COVID death benefits

The union that represents SEPTA workers fought for a $500,000 death benefit — a payout that New York’s MTA provided over the summer.

6 years ago

(Dan Nott for Spotlight PA)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa.’s failure to mandate quicker death reporting before the coronavirus fueled wild data fluctuations, mistrust

Pa. health officials abandoned their urgency in implementing a faster process, leaving them ill-prepared to accurately report death data when the pandemic arrived.

6 years ago

Apples at a farmers market
Business
Food & Drink
Public Health
Billy Penn

Philly relaxes rules at farmers markets to make outdoor shopping easier

You can now pick your own produce when you visit the stands.

6 years ago

Coronavirus testing site
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Health officials unveil new testing guidelines

Testing and Contact Tracing Director Michael Huff said the tiered approach to testing will prioritize the most vulnerable.

6 years ago

Naloxone
Addiction
New Jersey

N.J. pharmacies will hand out overdose-reversing medication naloxone for free this week

The program is the latest push by Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration to combat the opioid epidemic, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact public health and the economy.

6 years ago

NPR
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

As pandemic deaths add up, racial disparities persist — and in some cases worsen

People of color get sick and die of COVID-19 at rates higher than whites and higher than their share of the population.

6 years ago

Huda Mohamed
NPR
National
Public Health
Technology

A tech powerhouse, US lags in using smartphones for contact tracing

Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track COVID infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, used by a tiny percent of the population.

6 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, testifies during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
Medicine
National
Public Health

Single-dose vaccine tested as US experts say no corners cut

It will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing in 60,000 volunteers in the U.S.

6 years ago

Burlington County officials, including (from right) County Commissioner Director Felicia Hopson and Prosecutor Scott Coffina, cut the ribbon to open the county's new addiction Recovery Center in Westampton, N.J.. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Addiction
New Jersey
Public Health

One-stop shop for addiction recovery opens in Burlington County

The Recovery Center will begin with online sessions, but it offers a plethora of resources to help residents fight substance abuse.

6 years ago

(Jeff Rhode/ Holy Name Medical Center.)
Delaware
Public Health

Del. coronavirus recovery: State now offering at-home COVID testing

The in-home tests are designed especially to help older residents who are at higher risk of infection and may be hesitant to go to a public testing site.

6 years ago

Bertha Gonzalez (middle right), her mother Floria and her twin sons Sebastián and Santiago at her mother’s 70th birthday this April. Floria contracted the coronavirus in July. (Courtesy of Bertha Gonzalez)
The Why
Health Care
Race & Ethnicity

Philly Latinos are under-tested for COVID-19

There are many potential hurdles between Philly Latinos and a COVID-19 test — even though they're contracting the virus at high rates.

Air Date: September 22, 2020

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200,000 American Flags Installed On National Mall To Memorialize 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths
NPR
National
Public Health

‘Enormous and tragic’: US has lost more than 200,000 people to COVID-19

Over 200,000 people have now died from COVID-19 in the U.S., reaching what was once the upper limit of some estimates for the American death toll.

6 years ago

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention briefly posted new guidance to its website stating that the coronavirus can commonly be transmitted through aerosol particles, which can be produced by activities like singing. Here, choristers wear face masks during a music festival in southwestern France in July. (Bob Edme/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability
Public Health

CDC publishes — then withdraws — guidance on aerosol spread of coronavirus

The now-deleted updates were notable because so far the CDC has stopped short of saying that the virus is airborne.

6 years ago

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