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Two white-tailed deer forage in Pennsylvania's Wyomissing Parklands. At the end of 2021, researchers swabbed the noses of 93 dead deer from across the state. Nearly 20% tested positive for COVID. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)
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Researcher finds ‘stunning’ rate of COVID among deer across Pa. Here’s what it means for humans

Between October and December of last year, researchers swabbed the noses of 93 dead deer from across Pennsylvania. Nearly a fifth of the animals tested positive for COVID.

4 years ago

A passer-by walks past a sign that calls attention to COVID-19 testing while departing a Walgreens pharmacy
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National
Public Health

‘Test to Treat’ gets COVID pills to at-risk patients fast, but its reach is limited

The program enables at-risk patients who test positive to get antiviral pills on the spot in some pharmacies. But many pharmacies won't be able to participate.

4 years ago

A label states that these pans do not contain PFAS
Public Health

Besides water, how else am I exposed to PFAS?

Clothing, carpeting, even microwave popcorn bags may have been manufactured using some members of this toxic class of chemicals.

4 years ago

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In this photo illustration, free iHealth COVID-19 antigen rapid tests from the federal government sit on a U.S. Postal Service envelope after being delivered on Feb. 4, 2022. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Public Health

You can order free COVID tests from the government again

Each household can order a total of eight tests. So if you ordered four in January, when the program launched, you're eligible to order a second batch of four more.

4 years ago

Students wearing masks
New Jersey
Public Health

Most N.J. residents agree with ending the school mask mandate, poll says

According to a recent poll, two-thirds of New Jersey residents agree with ending the school mask mandate.

4 years ago

Margarette Osias speaks with one of her patients
NPR
Delaware
Health Care

Delaware is shrinking racial gaps in cancer death. Its secret? Patient navigators

Its free cancer screening and treatment is reducing inequities. Key to its success is outreach by patient navigators who connect with those least likely to seek care.

4 years ago

A person wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks amongst blooming cherry trees on a spring day at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Friday, April 9, 2021.
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health
Health Desk Help Desk

I’m immunocompromised. How does a mask protect me if no one else wears one?

Lifted mandates leave a lot of risk calculations up to immunocompromised individuals, for some of whom vaccines aren’t much help.

4 years ago

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FILE - Nurse Marie-Laure Satta pauses during her New Year's Eve shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)
International
Public Health

Death toll surpasses 6 million for pandemic now in 3rd year

The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening.

4 years ago

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, March 4, 2022
Government
Health Care
National
Public Health

White House: Congress must act soon to replenish COVID funds

Nearly a year after passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the administration says the federal government has nearly depleted funding dedicated to COVID-19.

4 years ago

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy leads the final briefing on the state's response to the pandemic on March 4, 2022 in Trenton, N.J. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Government
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. Gov. Murphy will lift public health emergency Monday

At his final COVID briefing, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the public health emergency will be lifted on Monday, the same day as the end of the school mask mandate.

4 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
New Jersey
Public Health

‘This is more of a political signal’: New Jersey’s last COVID briefing is set

Gov. Murphy’s 257th and final update on the state’s response to the virus marks the end of a two-year staple, not the end of the pandemic.

4 years ago

An NFL logo as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the Carolina Panthers at Raymond James Stadium on October 12, 2008 in Tampa, Florida.  (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
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National
Public Health
Sports

The NFL and players’ union agree to suspend COVID protocols for the 2022 season

With the change in protocol, league players and staff will no longer have to wear face coverings at NFL facilities, regardless of their vaccination status.

4 years ago

Customers wearing face masks shop at the Reading Terminal Market
Radio Times
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health

‘Long haulers’: Months later, the devastating impact of Covid-19

With Long Covid, millions of people suffer from clusters of symptoms ranging in severity. And, Philadelphia's Covid-19 level is "All Clear": most mandates lifted.

Air Date: March 3, 2022 10:00 am

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Health Care
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. grants Delaware County’s first health department final approval

The state Department of Health issued the certificate this week, allowing Delco to start official notifications to all 49 municipalities.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden
Government
Public Health

New Biden pandemic plan: Closer to normal for the nation

The White House outlined a strategy to allow people to return to many normal activities safely after two years of pandemic disruptions.

4 years ago

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