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Amy Brandwein, chef and owner of Centrolina, prepares a dish in her restaurant kitchen, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Washington. While restaurants in the U.S. and United Kingdom are open without restrictions and often bustling, they are entering their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic anxious about what’s ahead. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Restaurants anxious as omicron, high food costs take toll

They’re squeezed by labor shortages and skyrocketing food costs and the omicron variant is looming.

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A Cornell University student waits for a ride with luggage in tow at the campus in Ithaca, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 16. Cornell University abruptly shut down all campus activities on Tuesday and moved final exams online after hundreds of students tested positive over three days.
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How to get your teens or college-age kids to take omicron seriously

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NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins holds up a model of the coronavirus as he testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

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U.S. could see 1 million cases per day, warns departing NIH director Francis Collins

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Emmanuel Jenkins said he was grateful to receive his booster shot at home

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He has cerebral palsy, and lauds state program to vaccinate him against COVID-19 at home

The state has partnered with independent pharmacies to put shots in the arms of vulnerable people at their homes.

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Free rapid, at-home test kits were available at a city-run vaccine clinic in the Harrowgate neighborhood Saturday.

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Philly launches COVID test giveaways at Saturday vaccine clinic. 9 more are scheduled next week

Participants were limited to two free kits, each of which contains two tests. The goal is to increase testing amid the current COVID surge.

4 years ago

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Philly company Spark Therapeutics investing $575M toward gene therapy center on Drexel’s campus

Construction is set for late 2022. The center aims to bring gene therapy experts together to treat conditions like blindness, neurodegenerative disease.

4 years ago

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The COVID-19 variant omicron now reported in New Castle and Montgomery Counties

The variant has infected four people in New Castle County, Delaware and one person in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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In this 2020 photo, COVID-19 test kits are laid out on a table at the testing site at 2600 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Camden, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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Free at-home COVID tests kits available in New Jersey

You do not need an email address and no credit card is required. Officials say the new program is to increase access and availability of tests.

4 years ago

A person fills up a jug of water from a faucet.

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New Pennsylvania funding will connect more homes with PFAS-tainted wells to public water

More than $15.8 million in PFAS remediation grants were awarded to local municipalities and water authorities in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

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A BinaxNOW rapid COVID-19 test made by Abbott Laboratories rests on a table in the room where student-athletes at Pacific Lutheran are tested three times a week, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Tacoma, Wash.

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Philly Health Department offering free at-home COVID tests at vaccine clinic Saturday

Residents can collect two free rapid COVID-19 test kits per person at Saturday morning’s vaccine clinic at Community Academy of Philadelphia.

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After a Philly student dies of complications from COVID-19, teachers ask for a temporary return to virtual

While it’s not clear how the student contracted COVID, and minors tend to have much milder coronavirus symptoms on the whole, the current wave of new cases has many on edge.

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