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Fever is a possible side effect of a COVID vaccine.
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Coronavirus FAQ: What does it mean if the booster knocks me out? What if it doesn’t?

4 years ago

Saul Griffith is the author of Electrify (photo/Clayton Boyd)
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Electrifying everything: some optimism for climate change

Saul Griffith's hopeful and realistic action plan for fighting climate change while boosting the job market is to electrify, electrify, electrify.

Air Date: December 10, 2021 10:00 am

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A Kenyan health worker prepares to administer a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine
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Fix the global vaccine rollout or face even worse COVID variants, experts warn

The world has "lost the plot" on equitable vaccine access and is falling far short of targets to vaccinate the global south, according to scathing assessments from experts.

4 years ago

A rendering of a brain breaking apart into small pieces
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Amnesia, Opioids and Why We Forget

In 2018, Owen Rivers woke up in a hospital bed after a fentanyl overdose — and could no longer form new memories. It was a terrifying e ...

Air Date: December 10, 2021

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Students settle in at their desks
Health

‘To be ‘muffled’ is not to be gagged’: Judge upholds New Jersey’s school mask mandate

A federal judge has denied a request from a group of parents who want to stop Gov. Phil Murphy’s mask requirement for anyone in a school building.

4 years ago

Hands are pictured preparing a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

FDA expands Pfizer COVID booster, opens extra dose to age 16

The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters, ruling that 16- and 17-year-olds can get a third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.

4 years ago

A a registered nurse works on a computer while assisting a COVID-19 patient
Health

Jennersville and Brandywine hospitals in Chester County to close

Tower Health says a deal with Texas-based hospital management firm Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC has fallen apart and left it no options.

4 years ago

A critical care nurse administers an anti-viral medication to a COVID-positive patien
Health

COVID surge: Pennsylvania hospital chain runs out of beds

Statewide, an average of 3,900 people per day have been hospitalized with COVID-19 over the past two weeks, up 50% in a month.

4 years ago

Hands are pictured preparing a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

N.J. coronavirus update: State may have a ‘handful’ of cases of the omicron variant

Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Persichelli confirmed that the state lab had conducted sequencing on three suspected cases and the results are pending.

4 years ago

Shoppers wearing face masks wait in line to enter a store
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Health

Studies suggest sharp drop in vaccine protection v. omicron — yet cause for optimism

In small studies in South Africa and Germany, the results indicate a marked decrease in the ability of vaccines to neutralize this variant.

4 years ago

Leanna Arcilais licked by Watson, a therapy dog, as she gets a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

COVID cases spike even as U.S. reaches vaccine milestone

New cases in the U.S. climbed from an average of nearly 95,000 a day on Nov. 22 to almost 119,000 a day this week, and hospitalizations are up 25% from a month ago.

4 years ago

A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Health

Pfizer says COVID booster offers protection against omicron

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said lab tests showed a booster dose increased by 25-fold the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies against omicron.

4 years ago

An electron microscope image shows a human T cell under attack by HIV
Health

Philadelphia’s 2020 HIV rates mirror reduced screenings over the pandemic

Diagnoses in people who inject drugs were rising before the pandemic. Health officials worry now about spread among people who don’t know their HIV status.

4 years ago

A dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared
Health

Delaware sees second steepest spike in COVID-19 since pandemic began

The latest surge has led Gov. Carney to schedule his first coronavirus briefing in more than two months for this afternoon.

4 years ago

File photo: The New Jersey State House is seen in Trenton, N.J.
Health

Police at New Jersey capitol boost COVID rule enforcement

Troopers stood guard at entrances around the statehouse complex, including little-used doorways where no state police presence is typically present.

4 years ago

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