Health & Science

After a glow of hope when the first coronavirus vaccines were approved last month, the nation's inoculation campaign has gotten off to a slow start.

Delaware bars and restaurants can now stay open past 10 p.m., but Gov John Carney’s stay-at-home order and restrictions on large gatherings remain.

The Morris County site, in a former Sears store, will begin by giving shots to about 1,000 people per day. A Gloucester County site also opened Friday.

We look at the vaccine rollout and why it's behind schedule as deaths, hospitalizations, and infections continue to surge.

When you sign up, you’ll get an alert as soon as your “phase” is eligible for inoculation.

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Part of the delay in delivering results may not be because of overwhelming test volume at labs, but slow communication to patients.

Skyrocketing deaths and infections there are threatening to force hospitals to ration care and essentially decide who lives and who dies.

Someone in Dauphin County tested positive for the variant “after known international exposure,” the Department of Health said in a news release.

New Jersey officials have announced the start of the next phase of vaccinations against the coronavirus with police and fire professionals.

Phase 1A health care workers who live or work in Montgomery County were inoculated by appointment only at the community college in Blue Bell.

Congress has expanded eligibility for SNAP, Secretary Miller urges Pennsylvanians to apply.

About 100 emergency medical workers have gotten a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But about half offered the vaccine have declined, officials said.

Health experts agree that, to end the pandemic, the world needs to immunize a large percentage of Earth's population. And that population needs to be distributed evenly.