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‘Save lives, go home, and do it again the next day’: Working in Wilmington Hospital’s COVID-19 unit
Coronavirus cases are dropping, but Delaware hospitals are still operating under crisis standards of care. “COVID is still deadly,” one nurse manager stressed.
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Listen 2:05U.S. gives full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
Full approval means FDA has completed the same rigorous, time-consuming review for Moderna’s shot as dozens of other long-established vaccines.
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Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes
Omicron's race across the globe has amped up concerns about long COVID, which some estimates suggest affects a third of COVID-19 survivors.
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How do free at-home COVID tests help if you’re blind and can’t see the results?
The Biden administration is providing free at-home swab tests for COVID-19. But they come with significant barriers for the blind community.
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Listen 4:07Omicron drives U.S. deaths higher than in fall’s delta wave
Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation.
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The pandemic nightmare of being a working parent of young children will not relent
Parents continue to feel the precariousness of careers and routines dependent on reliable child care during an ever-ongoing pandemic.
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Report: N.J. COVID relief fund for excluded workers didn’t go far enough
While a report from New Jersey Policy Perspective said the state did not set aside enough aid, the state argues the program did not see as much demand as expected.
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COVID-19 vaccine mandate kicks in for health care workers in Pa., N.J., Del.
The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.
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Parents wary of COVID turn to lawsuits as school districts ease masking rules
One lawsuit out of Montgomery County says axing mask policies forces parents of medically fragile school children to pull their children out of in-person learning.
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Moderna begins testing omicron-matched COVID shots in adults
The company announced Wednesday that the first participant had received a dose. Earlier this week, competitor Pfizer began a similar study of its own reformulated shots.
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Philly health officials say winter COVID surge has peaked, but still urge caution
COVID-19 numbers are down 75% from two weeks ago, suggesting the winter surge has peaked. But the pandemic is not over, officials warn.
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COVID risk can mean something very different for people who are immunocompromised
The roughly 7 million Americans who are immunocompromised — including many people with disabilities — live with a much higher risk of COVID, and near-constant vigilance.
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As omicron rapidly fades, Carney weighs when to drop mask mandate
Cases, hospitalizations, and positivity rates have fallen precipitously over the last two weeks, but still are well above last January’s previous peak.
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Chesco limits COVID-19 contact tracing amid high community spread
The Chester County Health Department has asked schools to stop contact tracing and to focus on checking students for symptoms, testing them, and sending them home.
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Pfizer begins study of COVID shots updated to match omicron
COVID-19 vaccine makers have been updating their shots to better match omicron in case global health authorities decide the change is needed.
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