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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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File photo: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic wears a face mask as he listens to the national anthems prior to a Davis Cup group F match between Serbia and Austria in Innsbruck, Austria, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (Photo/Michael Probst)
Health

Unvaccinated Djokovic says he is out of Indian Wells, Miami

The 20-time Grand Slam champion tweeted Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control “confirmed the regulations won’t be changing so I won’t be able to play in the U.S.”

3 years ago

The exterior of Brandywine Hospital
Health

Canyon Atlantic drops lawsuit with Tower Health, ending a renewed bid to acquire Jennersville and Brandywine hospitals

The prospective buyer of the shuttered Chester County hospitals has ended a new bid to purchase and reopen them.

3 years ago

A label states that these pans do not contain PFAS
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.

3 years ago

Listen 2:17
Students wearing masks
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.

3 years ago

A PFAS filtration system
Science

Taking the first steps toward firm PFAS limits for drinking water in Pennsylvania and Delaware

Federal law gives the states authority. New Jersey already has enforceable maximum contaminant levels for specific types of the toxic chemicals.

3 years ago

Listen 2:19
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
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.

3 years ago

Listen 3:51
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)
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.

3 years ago

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, March 4, 2022
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.

3 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)
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.

3 years ago

A yellow street sign with arrows directing towards logic and intuition
The Pulse
Science

When to Trust Your Intuition

It’s when a dark alleyway makes the hairs stand up on the back of our neck; when a mother just knows that something’s wrong ...

Air Date: March 4, 2022

Listen 49:14
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
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.

3 years ago

Customers wearing face masks shop at the Reading Terminal Market
Radio Times
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

Listen 49:41
People stand outside of a building with a banner that reads,
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.

3 years ago

President Joe Biden
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.

3 years ago

Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant
Science
NJ Spotlight

Switch to electric buildings or miss climate goals, N.J. advocates say

The analysis calls on the state to step up efforts to transition buildings to electric power and to end heating homes with natural gas and other fossil fuels.

3 years ago

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