Health & Science
Wolf faces criticism from left and right for slow, confusing vaccine distribution
Pennsylvania Democrats are breaking rank to publicly express misgivings about the Wolf administration’s efforts to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.
3 years ago
An analysis shows that more than 300 senior care homes did not have a scheduled vaccine clinic as of Jan. 17, while hundreds more weren’t covered by a federal partnership.
3 years ago
The Biden administration is working to buy 200 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses
The administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses each from both Moderna and from Pfizer, which has a vaccine with its German counterpart BioNTech.
3 years ago
Philly hospitals have started vaccinating their patients against COVID-19. Here’s how it works
Penn, Temple and Einstein are pivoting from Phase 1A, when they vaccinated their patient-facing staff, to Phase 1B, their most at-risk patients.
3 years ago
Philly Fighting COVID CEO admits taking vaccine doses home despite patient demand
After PFC turned away people seeking vaccinations that day, friends of CEO Andrei Doroshin say they saw a Snapchat photo of him appearing to administer vaccine off-site.
3 years ago
Listen 1:20“Nobody’s Normal:” reducing mental health stigma
Professor Roy Richard Grinker discusses how mental illness became stigmatized in America and our progress toward a culture more accepting of mental health differences.
Air Date: January 26, 2021 10:00 am
Listen 49:00What’s actually in Philly Fighting COVID’s privacy policy?
During most of the time the group collected names on its COVIDReadi site, it did so without terms and conditions or a privacy policy.
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Deaths of despair: How the pandemic may be fueling lethal drug overdoses
As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.
3 years ago
City says to re-register if you signed up with Philly Fighting COVID, cut off from vaccines
The Health Department says it’s planning a new mass vaccination clinic.
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National Health Corps to tackle vaccine delivery, racial disparities in Delaware
New Castle County will become the newest National Health Corps site with AmeriCorps volunteers working to respond to COVID-19 and address inequities in health care.
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N.J. releases plan to reduce maternal mortality rate, fix racial disparities
A Black mother in New Jersey is seven times more likely than a white mother to die from maternity-related complications, according to the report.
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Philly Fighting COVID kicked out of city vaccine program after sudden switch to for-profit
Philadelphia says it has cut ties with the 9-month-old mass vaccine distributor over its sudden switch to a for-profit model and abrupt drop of community testing partners.
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N.J. coronavirus update: Vaccine hotline fields 60K calls; candidates can get signatures in person
The surge in interest highlighted an imbalance that there is far more demand for the vaccine than there are doses in the Garden State.
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N.J. coronavirus vaccination call center goes live
The phone number for the state’s COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center is 855-568-0545.
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Thousands of drug, alcohol recovery homes in Pa. still operate without state oversight
The Wolf administration has yet to implement regulations stemming from a 2017 reform law intended to better protect recovery home residents and address community complaints.
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