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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson
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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.

6 years ago

Imperial County in California is rural but has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Deborah Birx warned the pandemic is in a
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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.

6 years ago

Students, wearing face masks and paying attention to social distancing, study at Les Magnolias primary school during the partial lifting of coronavirus, COVID-19, lockdown regulations in Brussels, Monday, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Kids
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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.

6 years ago

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Terri Donelson, left, and her husband, Stephen, walk up their driveway to see friends and family awaiting him at his home in Midlothian, Texas on Friday, June 19, 2020, after his 90-day stay in the Zale Hospital on the UT Southwestern Campus. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
International
Public Health

Early 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.

6 years ago

The second patient in a first-stage study of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 receives a shot in in March at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)
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Government Accountability
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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?

6 years ago

Philadelphia Phillies' Nick Martini catches a fly ball hit by Josh Harrison during an intrasquad baseball game Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Philadelphia
Sports
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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.

6 years ago

Melissa Hickson says no one asked her husband Michael, shown here with stepdaughter Mia, if he wanted to keep getting treatment.
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Health Care
Medicine

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.

6 years ago

Delaware health officials have ramped up testing at the Delaware beaches. (Courtesy of Delaware National Guard)
Delaware
Public Health

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.

6 years ago

(Cape May County COVID Recovery Task Force)
Down the Shore
Business
New Jersey

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. 

6 years ago

The Trump administration abruptly required hospitals to stop reporting COVID data to CDC and use a new reporting system set up by a contractor. Two weeks in, the promised improvements in the data have yet to materialize. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images
NPR
Health Care
Medicine

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.

6 years ago

Hair coloring
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Beauty and Health

Health and beauty may go together in the drugstore — but in real life, the two aren’t always so simpatico. From excessive dieting to ...

Air Date: July 31, 2020

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Some city residents say they are fed up with delayed trash collection. The city says sanitation workers are worked harder than ever, due to more people staying home and making more trash. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Philadelphia
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Streets & Roads

Philly’s trash problem was already bad. Now, it’s worse

Sidewalks in Philadelphia neighborhoods are covered with plastic bags full of trash that haven't been collected in a week. And nobody know when it's going to get picked up.

Air Date: July 30, 2020

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A jogger can be seen in the distance running in Wilmington
Business
Delaware

Increased coronavirus enforcement at businesses coming to Delaware

After more than 1,000 complaints about businesses not following COVID-19 precautions, Delaware inspectors will be more aggressive enforcing the rules.

6 years ago

In this Oct. 31, 2011 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain holds up a muffin that has his catch-phrase 9-9-9 tax plan printed on it  before speaking at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Politics
Public Health

Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies of COVID-19 at 74

Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks.

6 years ago

In San Francisco, a poster seen in March urges the public to socially distance in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
NPR
National
Public Health

Health experts urge a shutdown do-over as COVID-19 cases surge

A campaign led by doctors, health researchers and other health experts calls to shut down parts of the country again in order to get the pandemic under control.

6 years ago

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