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Apple's new COVID-19 app and website provides the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Apple)
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Apple’s new tool lets you screen yourself for COVID-19

Apple's new COVID-19 website and app allow users to screen themselves for coronavirus symptoms and receive recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

6 years ago

(NJ Spotlight)
New Jersey
Public Safety
NJ Spotlight

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

6 years ago

President Donald Trump salutes as the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort pulls away from the pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
New Jersey
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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.

6 years ago

After an initial verbal screening, one driver at a time gets a COVID-19 nasal swab test from a garbed health worker at a drive-up station in Daly City, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Medicine
Public Health

Why it takes so long to get most COVID-19 test results

After a slow start, testing for COVID-19 has begun to ramp up in recent weeks.

6 years ago

(Billy Penn illustration)
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

Use this map to track Philly’s positive COVID-19 cases by ZIP code

The city health department is updating numbers daily.

6 years ago

The York County Prison is where most immigration detainees in Pennsylvania are held after ICE arrests. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Criminal Justice
Immigration
Public Health

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.

6 years ago

Philadelphia residents can pick up one box of food per household on Mondays and Thursdays. (Michael Rubinkam/AP Photo)
Medicine
Public Safety

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.

6 years ago

Beginning Saturday, officials plan to send new male inmates and parole violators to SCI Retreat in Luzerne County, while transferring most of the people currently held there to other prisons in the state. (Department of Corrections)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Public Health
PA Post

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.

6 years ago

Margaret Hart and Maisie Rush at Bryn Mawr College in September 1918 U.S. (National Archives)
Medicine
Public Health
Billy Penn

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.

6 years ago

Philadelphia and its surrounding counties have been hard-hit by COVID-19. Now, they want to share resources with areas that didn’t get the brunt of the pandemic. (Michael Bryant/Spotlight PA)
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

How many people in Pa. will be infected with the coronavirus? Scientific modeling is trying to find the answer.

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.

6 years ago

A laboratory technician prepares COVID-19 patient samples for semi-automatic testing at Northwell Health Labs, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Lake Success, N.Y. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)
Health Care
Public Health

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.

6 years ago

At Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, Chief Nursing Officer Annmarie Papa (left) and Chief Operating Officer Beth Duffy accept a donation of bagels and croissants from Four Worlds Bakery. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Food & Drink
Health Care
Public Health

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.

6 years ago

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President Donald Trump
Government Accountability
Public Health

Watch 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.

6 years ago

A sign is displayed on locked tennis courts in Branch Brook Park in Newark, N.J., Thursday, March 26, 2020. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Health Care
Public Health

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."

6 years ago

Mari-Carmen Farmer made this arrangement from pods, leaves, buds and blossoms she found along a recent hike. (Mari-Carmen Farmer)
Gender
Health Care
Public Health

A message of encouragement to the doulas of the world

Mari-Carmen Farmer ends World Doula Week with a message of encouragement to a community of women.

6 years ago

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