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Black residents make up a little under half of Washington’s population, but constitute nearly three-fourths of the city's COVID-19 deaths.

The rotating clinics will be located in Kensington, North Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia, with plans to vaccinate high-priority city residents eligible in Phase 1B.

The “vax-a-thon” was Philly’s first 24-hour vaccine clinic and the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium surpassed their vaccination goal before midnight.

Pennsylvania health systems believed they were following state orders when they used vaccines that were supposed to be set aside for people awaiting their second doses.

The downtown Philadelphia convention center can handle vaccinating 6,000 people daily from the coronavirus, officials said.

New Jersey did not receive about 230,000 first and second COVID vaccine shots this week because of weather-related delays in other parts of the country.

The U.S. is still far behind other countries when it comes to doing enough of the lab work needed to keep track of the variants of SARS-CoV-2.

School closures during the pandemic have pushed education for millions of kids into a virtual setting. The sudden changes have caused som ...

The walk-in clinic will be open from noon Feb. 19 to noon Feb. 20, but only for those eligible in Phase 1B and from certain Philadelphia ZIP codes.

A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in a quest to search for life on Mars.

Samuel Gulick threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the Newark medical facility in January 2020. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

States are beginning to ease coronavirus restrictions, but health experts say we don't know enough yet about variants to roll back measures that could help slow their spread.

City Council passed a near-unanimous resolution calling on Kenney to turn the Eagles stadium in South Philadelphia into a mass vaccination site run by the city.

The administration says there will only be a few million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine available to distribute right away, assuming the company gets FDA authorization.

The group that suffered the largest drop in life expectancy was Black men — a decline of 3 years. Hispanic men also saw a large decrease, with a decline of 2.4 years.