Health & Science
Coronavirus FAQ: So do lots of people get COVID-19 from flying?
Air travel has seldom looked the way it does now. International aviation is operating 2% to 4% of its normal number of flights. So how risky is air travel amid a pandemic?
4 years ago
New research suggests in-person voting may be less risky than previously thought
The report concludes Wisconsin voters who went to the polls in April did not see a surge in COVID-19 infections, although another study reaches the opposite conclusion.
4 years ago
As pandemic persists, health care heroes beginning to crack under the strain
Many doctors are suffering burnout five months into the pandemic. But the toll is compounded for Latino doctors serving heavily affected communities.
4 years ago
When the dam’s away, the fish will play: Demolition on Brandywine Creek is restoring shad
In late July, researchers caught juvenile and adult fish just upstream of where the West Street Dam was removed by the City of Wilmington in 2019.
4 years ago
Review of COVID-19’s effect on communities of color largely ignores those incarcerated in Pa.
A state task force is calling on the legislature to give corrections and parole officials greater flexibility to release incarcerated people during declared disasters.
4 years ago
Numerous high school students tested positive for COVID-19 after Shore party
Numerous high school students from South Jersey have tested positive for COVID-19 after a Sea Isle City party, officials said.
4 years ago
New Castle County offers $10 million to reduce coronavirus health care inequity
People of color in Delaware's most populous county have a higher rate of infection than white residents. The county will offer $10 million to community groups to reduce that.
4 years ago
N.J. coronavirus recovery: Contact tracers get little cooperation, shutoff moratorium extended
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says that the Garden State’s efforts to perform COVID-19 contract tracing had been hampered by non-responders.
4 years ago
Fines for 2018-2019 violations come less than two weeks after spill in Chester County.
4 years ago
California fires claim 5 lives, threaten thousands of homes
Three major collections of fires are threatening tens of thousands of homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and central California.
4 years ago
A town hall update on Delco’s move toward a health department all its own
Highlighted at the virtual session, attended by 200-plus, was a Johns Hopkins report assessing the public health profile and availability of resources.
4 years ago
Safety or socialization?: School leaders ‘agonize’ over COVID-era back-to-school plans
It takes years for science to migrate into real-life practice. Today, educators are trying to make real-time sense of a disease scientists are learning about on the fly.
4 years ago
Listen 11:14Student showcase: What teenagers are thinking about this upcoming school year
How are kids being impacted by the pandemic? Our high school reporters produced short personal essays on ways that the pandemic has impacted each of their lives.
4 years ago
Haunted by sickness: The enduring trauma of COVID-19
For some who have recovered, emotional or psychological effects linger, compounded because their symptoms mirror those of the coronavirus itself.
4 years ago
Listen 2:49The Atlantic is awash with far more plastic than previously thought, study finds
A study suggests there is more plastic in the Atlantic Ocean than scientists estimated earlier, especially tiny plastic pieces that can end up inside fish and other animals.
4 years ago
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