Health & Science

Montgomery County will soon accept appointments for a third dose of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for immunocompromised individuals.

The Black Doctors group will be giving vaccinations this weekend and those who get them will be eligible to win free tickets to Made in America.

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Today, suicide is the second-leading cause of death among Black children ages 10 to 19. And that rate is rising faster for them than for any other racial or ethnic group.

The task, experts said, is figuring out how best to carry on, while still honoring the person who’s no longer with us

Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers are not vaccinated, according to federal data, despite those facilities bearing the brunt of the early COVID-19 outbreak.

The city’s acting health commissioner said existing providers would be tapped to distribute third vaccine doses once CDC guidelines are finalized.

The plan, as outlined by the CDC and other top authorities, calls for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.

The Bucks County Health Department said it was changing course because local hospitals said any pediatric COVID-19 cases could stress the system.

Sea-level rise threatens old-growth maritime forest at the national recreation area, as well as the region’s freshwater.

The BDCC joins major pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, in offering the boosters to help curb the risk of the delta variant for people who are medically vulnerable.

Montco is requiring masking in government buildings, and recommending them everywhere else, as the delta variant continues to spread and push up new cases of coronavirus.

The overwhelming number of COVID cases and hospitalizations remain among the unvaccinated, though Delaware is seeing a sharp rise in breakthrough cases.

Following the lanternfly’s arrival to New Jersey, the state’s Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine zone that encompassed eight N.J. counties.

New Castle County is using $675,000 of its federal coronavirus relief funds to pay for the pilot program that it hopes to expand.