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Coronavirus testing
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Technology

Pennsylvania prepares to launch virus-tracing app next month

The app is designed to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.

5 years ago

Coronavirus testing
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

Are antigen tests the silver bullet to Pa.‘s coronavirus testing delays? Not so fast.

Here's everything you need to know about the different coronavirus tests and what they can — and can't — tell you.

5 years ago

Air conditioners on a building
NPR
Home & Family
Public Health

Can air conditioners spread COVID-19?

The answer to this question rests on the way the virus is transmitted — a topic that is still being researched.

6 years ago

Dr. Mike Benninghoff confers with registered nurse Lea Robbins in Christiana Hospital's intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients. (Courtesy of ChristianaCare)
Delaware
Health Care
Public Health

Delaware hospitals have fewer and fewer COVID-19 patients

Public health officials and hospitals had feared disaster in the spring. But the number of people needing inpatient treatment has steadily declined.

6 years ago

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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 8, 2020: Season ticket holder David Baltazar of Long Beach wears a Dodgers neck gaiter as he sits with other fans watching the Dodgers play the San Francisco Giants from a far overlook spot because of the coronavirus pandemic in Elysian Park on August 8, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. They are listening to the game on the radio since they are too far away to hear the sounds form the game. No fans are allowed in the stadium. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
NPR
Public Health

How should I cover my face? A deeper look into neck gaiters and face shields

Between face shields, neck gaiters and goggles, the options for protection are getting more complex.

6 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Lebanon County to get its $12.8M in CARES Act funds

In May and June, the Pennsylvania Health Department did inspections, mostly following up on complaints about COVID-19. The data has just been released.

6 years ago

One of many ballot drop boxes in New Jersey for Tuesday's primary election.  (Evelyn Tu for WHYY)
Elections
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. coronavirus recovery: General election to be a mix of mail-in, in-person voting

Gov. Murphy confirms N.J. will use largely the same plan from the primary for the general election. This time all registered voters will get a mail-in ballot.

6 years ago

Source: NPR survey of state public health departments, NPR and member station reporting, local media reports and National Association of County and City Health Officials. (Ruth Talbot/NPR)
NPR
Health Care
Public Health

13 states make contact tracing data public. Here’s what they’re learning

The vast majority of states are gathering data from their contact tracing programs, but only 13 respondents reported that the data was posted on a government website.

6 years ago

Since hospitals have restricted minister visits due to COVID-19, Pastor Paul Shirley of Grace Community Church has reached out to patients on the phone. (Courtesy of Rebecca Shirley)
Health Care
Public Health
Religion

Hospital visits to those who are ill but not dying are vital too, clergy argue

When the pandemic began, many hospitals strictly restricted visitors. At some, faith leaders have been limited to phone calls and video chats ever since.

6 years ago

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Belvin Jefferson White poses with a portrait of her father Saymon Jefferson, who died from COVID-19, in Baton Rouge, La., in May. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
NPR
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

COVID-19 death rate for Black Americans twice that for whites, new report says

It says the impact of the pandemic and how the disease has followed the contours of the larger society in falling especially hard on Blacks, Latinos and Indigenous people.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden joined by his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., replaces his face mask after speaking at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Elections
Public Health

Biden calls for nationwide mask mandate

“This is America. Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Step up, do the right thing.”

6 years ago

A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) heavily infected with particles (orange) from the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient sample. (NIAID)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Public Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Tracing and testing delays in Philadelphia

Of the positive cases interviewed by contact-tracers, more than 40% believed they knew the person who they got the infection from, usually a household member.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

Inside some Pennsylvania rehabs, ‘it’s like COVID doesn’t exist’

When treatment facilities ignore coronavirus protocols, patients are forced to choose between recovery and safety.

6 years ago

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Lahore, Pakistan. Guterres expressed hope Tuesday, June 23, 2020 that Israel will hear global calls and will not go ahead with annexation of parts of the West Bank, which would undermine a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry, File)
International
Public Health

UN chief: pandemic threatens peace and risks new conflicts

Guterres said the pandemic has raised growing questions about the effectiveness of health systems, social services, trust in institutions and systems of governance.

6 years ago

Waves breaking along a Jersey Shore beach.
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Outdoors
Public Health

Fecal bacteria leads to swimming advisories at six N.J. beaches

Six New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories issued Tuesday afternoon due to exceeding the allowable bacteria threshold, state officials said.

6 years ago

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