Health & Science

How did the new COVID-19 strains evolve? Will the vaccine still be effective? WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk looked for answers.

The consequences could be serious, experts said: Potentially wider disparities could go unnoticed, and efforts to address them go unplanned.

Where you should go to register for the COVID-19 vaccine in New Jersey, and why there are so many websites to do it.

After the city’s formal request for vaccine distribution partners went out, Johnson sent emails to PFC’s Doroshin, discussing financial details of his application.

Dr. Paul Stoffels, the chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, said the company's vaccine is effective where it matters most: preventing hospitalizations and deaths.

At a virtual town hall hosted by WHYY, direct engagement was seen as key to helping overcome mistrust of the country’s racist medical history.

The new travel order will require passengers to wear face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation, including planes, ships, trains, subways, buses and taxis.

The gap is deeply troubling to some, given that the coronavirus has taken a disproportionate toll in severe sickness and death on Black people in the U.S.

The Navajo Nation has lifted a strict weekend curfew that has been in place for months to expand COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

At an indoor press conference in the lobby of his Fishtown apartment building Friday, a maskless Andrei Doroshin blamed everyone but himself.

Area homeless shelters and outreach workers are gearing up to try to get people safely indoors.

Philly Counts, the city’s census outreach team, will now be working on COVID-19 vaccine distribution and education.

Three people, including a child under the age of 10, are the first in Delaware to contract the more contagious U.K. variant of COVID-19.

The state has now administered more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine than it has had positive cases since the pandemic began.

A five-month analysis by Spotlight PA found large fluctuations in the number of tests administered and unexplained changes to the death count.