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Health

A person walks down Sansom Street in Center City Tuesday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Public Health

Coronavirus death toll rises in N.J. and Pa. as Del. confronts new cases

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the tri-state region have topped 4,500 with New Jersey reporting nearly 1,000 new cases in a single day.

6 years ago

A person exits Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health Care
Medicine

Hahnemann building’s owner stymies city’s bid to lease it for COVID-19 cases

Mayor Jim Kenney accuses owner Joel Freedman of “jacking up monthly prices.” Councilmember Helen Gym calls for seizing it via eminent domain.

6 years ago

President Trump speaks with anchor Bill Hemmer during a Fox News virtual town hall from the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Business
Economy
Public Health

Watch live: White House holds coronavirus task force briefing

President Trump hopes the United States can begin to get back to normal by the middle of next month, he said on a Fox News TV special on Tuesday.

6 years ago

A medical staff member in protective gear administers a test for COVID-19 at a drive-through testing center in Paramus, N.J., Friday, March 20, 2020. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Public Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. now has second-most cases nationwide

3,675 coronavirus cases in New Jersey puts the state second only to New York. The Garden State moved to cancel all standardized tests for students.

6 years ago

A Naval Aircraft Factory float, featuring the hull of a F5L patrol seaplane, heads south on Broad Street in Philadelphia, escorted by sailors with rifles. Note the crowd of onlookers. This parade, with its associated dense gatherings of people, contributed significantly to the massive outbreak of influenza which struck Philadelphia a few days later. (NH 41730 courtesy of the Naval History & Heritage Command)
The Why
History
Philadelphia

Philly’s previous pandemic

Why the 1918 flu pandemic hit Philadelphia especially hard and what we can take from it today during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Air Date: March 24, 2020

Listen 14:28
(Monica Herndon/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Addiction
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Quarantining patients at Pa. drug treatment centers could pose risk, but many have nowhere else to go

As of March 23, the state Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs had no reports of COVID-19 cases within treatment facilities. Providers say it’s only a matter of time.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Medical Reserve Corps volunteers (from left) Megan Boyle, Marina Spitkovskaya, Jamie Huot, and Stephen Bonett, all of whom are nurses, walk to the swabbing tent as the city's coronavirus testing site prepared to open next to Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Philadelphia officials refute Trump’s comments, call on federal government for help

“If we do this right, then maybe, maybe within two to four weeks, we can see evidence of slowing of the epidemic wave,” said Health Commissioner Tom Farley.

6 years ago

A runner at Ridge Avenue and Spring Garden Street on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Mental Health
Public Health

Exercise is good for us. Even more so now that we’re stuck at home

We’re all a little stressed during these “stay-at-home” days. The health benefits of exercise can help counteract the impacts of isolation.

6 years ago

Dean Lindsey shared a picture on Facebook on March 21, 2020 of the items on his bedside table in quarantine in his State College house.
DEAN LINDSEY
Pennsylvania
Public Health
WPSU

First-person account of COVID-19: Centre County man shares his story

WPSU’s Emily Reddy talked with Dean Lindsey, who says he’s one of the first positive cases in Centre County.

6 years ago

Nurses with ChristianaCare test people for the coronavirus in downtown Wilmington on March 13, 2020. (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Delaware
Public Health

Delaware coronavirus case total hits 104, presidential primary postponed

Delaware’s Democrats will have to wait a little longer to vote in what’s expected to be a landslide primary win for Joe Biden.

6 years ago

COVID-19 testing facility at Penn Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Medicine
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Pa. nurses: Hospitals won’t guarantee paid leave for workers with COVID-19

“We’re on the front lines, and we have an increased risk,” said a state union president.

6 years ago

Photographer HughE Dillon, who tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing anosmia COURTESY HUGHE DILLON
Public Health
Billy Penn

Many COVID sufferers experience loss of taste and smell, but it’s not a quarantine symptom in Philly yet

“Everything tastes like sewer water,” said one Philadelphia patient.

6 years ago

The City of Philadelphia cleared the encampments of people living in tunnels beneath the Pennsylvania Convention Center Monday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Homelessness
Housing
Public Health
Broke in Philly

Philadelphia to open a quarantine facility for people who can’t go home

The news came hours after local officials moved forward with a long-planned effort to clear a homeless encampment in the tunnels beneath the Center City convention center.

6 years ago

Medical workers wait for cars to pull up to the swabbing tent at the city's coronavirus testing site next to Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2020. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Wolf issues stay-at-home order for Philly suburbs, extends school closures

Pennsylvania reported 165 new patients diagnosed with COVID-19 on Monday, the largest single-day jump since the coronavirus outbreak began.

6 years ago

A notice is displayed above the lightly traveled Garden State Parkway in Ocean View, N.J., Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
New Jersey
Public Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. promises crackdown on ‘stay-at-home’ scofflaws

Stiff penalties await individuals and businesses who violate New Jersey’s strict social distancing mandates, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said.

6 years ago

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