Health
Pa. Gov. Wolf signs emergency declaration after 2 confirmed coronavirus cases
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday morning the state's first two cases of coronavirus, one in Delaware County and one in Wayne County.
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Central Bucks District closes five schools over coronavirus exposure
Coronavirus exposure closes five schools in the Central Bucks School District out of an “abundance of caution,” no cases in Pa. confirmed yet.
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Rope or rod? Torn between scoliosis surgeries
One’s tried and true. The other’s promising, but uncharted in the long term. Which would you choose?
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Listen 14:11Medicine is always changing. New treatments become available. Old ones become obsolete. But how does a treatment become established? How ...
Air Date: March 6, 2020
Listen 48:50What do you want to know about the coronavirus in Philly?
Tell us your most pressing questions regarding COVID-19.
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Delaware works to contain mumps outbreak in New Castle County schools
Health officials are working to control a mumps outbreak among school children in New Castle County, Del.
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N.J. now has four patients who tested positive for COVID-19
Acting Gov. Oliver announced immediate restrictions on state-related business travel, international and short trips, such as to New York and Philadelphia.
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N.J. health officials confirm the state’s 1st positive test of new coronavirus
A man in his 30s who is hospitalized in Bergen County has New Jersey’s first positive test for COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement Wednesday.
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Pa. proposes to relax non-residential lead cleanup standards
If approved, the lead concentration allowed on the first 2 feet of sites like the PES refinery complex would rise from 1,000 parts per million to 2,500 ppm.
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Philly’s homeless shelters prepare for unique challenge coronavirus brings
A lot of cleaning and monitoring for symptoms is going on since close quarters would make it hard for residents to keep a distance from an ill individual.
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Pennsylvania says it is speeding up coronavirus testing
The lab can now handle about 25 samples a day and that rate should increase in the coming days after it gets a piece of equipment that boosts its testing capacity.
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Airport workers to get coronavirus training as PHL ramps up response
Philly International is not a designated “screener” location, but does have a CDC quarantine station.
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COVID-19 — a coronavirus disease — is spreading around the world, putting people and governments on high alert. How will we respond t ...
Air Date: March 4, 2020
Listen 27:03Civic groups argue supervised injection site will boost crime
Neighborhood groups joined the FOP in supporting U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s effort to keep the nonprofit’s supervised injection site from opening.
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Why are so many more children nearsighted these days?
One in three Americans now have myopia. Kids who spend lots of time indoors are five times more at risk of developing it, research shows.
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