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President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Biden: ‘We can’t wait any longer’ to address climate crisis

The orders target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.

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Signs on the window of the city's first mass vaccination at the Pa. Convention Center on its opening day, Jan. 8. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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What are elected officials saying about the Philly Fighting COVID vaccine debacle?

Roused by reporting on the startup’s questionable practices, lawmakers beginning to speak out.

5 years ago

Cory Miller, executive director of the University Area Joint Authority, in the State College area of Centre County, standing in front of a UAJA solar panel project. (Anne Danahy / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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Solar panels from a wastewater authority? In Centre County, renewable energy has an unlikely booster

By promoting solar, agency hopes to convince state it's also cutting nitrate emissions.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf addresses the media while wearing a face mask
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Health

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.

5 years ago

(Alejandro A. Alvarez/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health
Spotlight PA

Hundreds of Pa. senior-living facilities haven’t received vaccine as widened eligibility, low supply slow rollout

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.

5 years ago

Vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
NPR
Health

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.

5 years ago

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a Philadelphia school nurse vaccination clinic on Jan. 22, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

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.

5 years ago

Philly Fighting COVID CEO Andrei Doroshin speaks at the opening of the community vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Health

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.

5 years ago

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“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

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Home health workers wait in line outside Philadelphia’s community vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Health

What’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.

5 years ago

Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims
NPR
Health

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.

5 years ago

The community COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Pa. Convention Center.
Health
Billy Penn

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.

5 years ago

A person receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Health

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.

5 years ago

newborn babies
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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.

5 years ago

Philadelphia’s vaccination clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

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.

5 years ago

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