Health & Science
‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine
Hospitals are rolling out the first small shipments Monday, as boxes of precious frozen vials arrive at locations around the country.
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PHLConnectED is offering free internet to more Philadelphia students and their households
The effort widens to households in public benefit programs with income qualifications, and students designated as English learners and special ed students.
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Wilmington Code Purple shelter shifts to winter-long hotel stay
Instead of a temporary shelter only opened on super cold nights, Friendship House plans to move those experiencing homelessness into a former hotel all winter long.
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Black people have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Many of them are the most distrustful of a vaccine.
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Listen 4:28First batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine could reach Delaware ‘within the next few days’
Delaware could receive more than 8,700 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine and begin distribution to residents “within the next few days,” per health officials.
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New Jersey health care worker COVID-19 vaccinations to begin Tuesday
New Jersey, like the rest of the country, has seen a resurgence of the virus, with daily caseloads climbing above their highest points in the spring.
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COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will kickstart the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million people.
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Pregnant people haven’t been part of vaccine trials. Should they get the vaccine?
The CDC estimates 330,000 health care personnel could be pregnant or recently postpartum at the time of vaccine implementation.
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States will start getting COVID-19 vaccine Monday, US says
Trucks will roll out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx begin delivering Pfizer’s vaccine to nearly 150 locations.
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Anyone who hasn’t found a place to live after Dec. 15 will be offered temporary shelter, say officials, who’ve successfully placed 50 people so far.
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U.S. allows emergency COVID-19 vaccine in bid to end pandemic
The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine.
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Delaware offers naloxone through mail order as overdose deaths climb
In an effort to reverse the state’s overdose death rate that continues to climb, the state is offering to mail out the OD-interrupting drug naloxone.
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Anyone who hasn’t found a place to live after Dec. 15 will be offered temporary shelter, say officials, who’ve successfully placed 50 people so far.
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NJ Update: Gov. Murphy hits COVID scofflaws with liquor license suspensions
Ten bars and restaurants across the state were hit with liquor license suspensions that could outlast the worst of the pandemic –– ranging from 10 to 115 days.
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Pa. just had the second worst 24-hour COVID spike of the pandemic
The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported a large jump in new coronavirus cases one day after new restrictions were announced.
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