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Motorists line up at a drive-through COVID-19 testing center in the Motor Vehicle Commission parking lot in Camden, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Public Health

Residents with no COVID-19 symptoms seek tests at new Camden County site, are turned away

Camden County’s new COVID-19 testing site opened Wednesday, drawing many people without symptoms who said they also should be tested.

6 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney (City of Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Mayor Kenney announces first steps for reopening Philadelphia

Philadelphia will start lifting its coronavirus restrictions by reopening golf courses and resuming construction projects.

6 years ago

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Innovation
Medicine
National

Gilead drug proves effective against coronavirus in US study

U.S. government officials say an experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study.

6 years ago

Miriam Casillas stands guard outside the Acme in Pike Creek, making sure shoppers are wearing a mask. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
Public Health

Masks might be uncomfortable, but they are Delaware’s required ‘new normal’

Gov. John Carney’s latest executive order took effect Tuesday morning. His public health director says it should last “for quite some time.”

6 years ago

A nurse with ChristianaCare gives a free test for the coronavirus to a driver in Delaware. (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Delaware
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Sussex hot spot accounts for bulk of Delaware’s new cases

About 70 percent of new cases reported Wednesday by the Delaware Division of Public Health were in Sussex County, the state’s coronavirus hot spot.

6 years ago

Stevens Park in Hoboken, N.J.
Business
New Jersey
Public Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. to reopen parks, freelancers get unemployment

The reopenings take effect Saturday. Freelancers and gig workers to start receiving unemployment payments.

6 years ago

President Trump spoke in the East Room of the White House Tuesday spoke about supporting small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic through the Paycheck Protection Program. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Public Health

The U.S. hits 1 million coronavirus cases, one-third of all the world’s cases

More Americans have now died from coronavirus in less than two months than in the entire nine years of the Vietnam war — more than 58,000.

6 years ago

The Pavilion originally wasn't slated to open until 2021. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Medicine
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Penn Medicine’s new $1.5 billion tower is ready to accept patients

Construction was accelerated to make 120 new beds available for a possible COVID surge.

6 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf (Commonwealth Media Services)
The Why
Economy
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Inside the politics of reopening Pa.

Gov. Tom Wolf is under pressure to get people back to work, while trying to bring the pandemic under control. And the issue has gotten political.

Air Date: April 28, 2020

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Blood donation in Bangkok, Thailand
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

Harnessing the immune system: Can plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients help the severely ill?

Antibodies that fought off coronavirus once might do so again. The treatment has been used for a century-plus, including in 1918’s influenza pandemic.

6 years ago

Listen 2:03
Maria Buono wears homemade mask in Pike Creek, Delaware
Delaware
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Another huge jump for cases and deaths in Delaware as Sussex County becomes ‘hot spot’

The hotbed for COVID-19 has shifted to Delaware’s southernmost county, home to its treasured beaches and agricultural industry.

6 years ago

Coronavirus testing site in Camden, New Jersey
Neighborhoods
New Jersey
Public Health

In Camden, curbing COVID-19 requires more testing, but not just more testing

Camden is expanding its COVID-19 testing capabilities and pairing it with services that address what makes some of its residents so vulnerable to the virus.

6 years ago

Ocean City, New Jersey
New Jersey
Public Health

Ocean City says beaches will stay closed for Memorial Day

Normally, it’s the unofficial start of summer, but at least one Jersey Shore town says it can’t safely reopen in time for Memorial Day weekend.

6 years ago

Preparing for COVID-19 intensive care patients (Photo by: Britta Pedersen/AP Images)
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

Treating blood clots, kidney injuries and other problems linked to COVID-19 could save lives

As doctors treat more and more COVID-19 patients, they are realizing the new coronavirus can affect far more than just a patient's lungs.

6 years ago

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Tammy King (left) is comforted by her sister Michelle Rouco, both nurses, who were not allowed to see their father before he succumbed to COVID-19. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health Care
Public Health

Their father died of COVID-19 at the hospital where they worked. They still weren’t allowed to see him

Sisters Tammy King and Michelle Rouco worked as nurses at the same hospital where their father died of COVID-19. They still couldn’t be by his side.

6 years ago

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