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Health & Science

Pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters
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Health

Pfizer to seek FDA OK for COVID-19 vaccine ‘within days’

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was found 95% effective in an updated study analysis. The company says it plans to file for FDA emergency use "within days."

5 years ago

Nurses picket at the entrance to St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa. About 800 nurses went on strike Tuesday citing long simmering grievances over wages and staffing levels. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Nurses at St. Mary Medical Center strike for safer staff levels as coronavirus surges

As the virus hospitalizes more people across the region, the 700-plus nurses say there aren’t enough of them on staff to keep patients safe.

5 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, is pictured on Capitol Hill on Sept. 23. Fauci tells NPR it's
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Fauci: Vaccine results are ‘important advance,’ but virus precautions are still vital

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells NPR that strong testing results for both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are "a very, very important advance" in trying to stop the coronavirus outbreak.

5 years ago

A health worker holding a COVID-19 vaccine vial
Health

Four in 10 New Jerseyans would skip a coronavirus vaccine, poll finds

New Jersey respondents were more likely to say they would take a coronavirus vaccine if it was discussed in positive terms.

5 years ago

(Steven Senne/AP)
NPR
Health

Amazon wants to sell you prescription medications

The retail giant barging in — its biggest foray into health care yet — reverberated through the industry on Tuesday.

5 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Health

Gov. Carney puts new restrictions on indoor dining, gatherings, youth sports in Delaware

Gov. Carney ordered sharp new restrictions, saying the skyrocketing number of coronavirus cases and increasing hospitalizations and deaths forced him to act.

5 years ago

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Darlene Burton's 'mask tree' empties each time she restocks it. (Twitter / @darlene15292071)
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Billy Penn

A ‘mask tree’ grows in Harrowgate: Philly resident provides free face coverings for the neighborhood

The day after Darlene Burton put up the popular installation, her daughter was diagnosed with COVID.

5 years ago

Philadelphia skyline on a misty, foggy evening
Health
Billy Penn

Philly’s winter coronavirus restrictions will last through the New Year

No indoor dining, no gyms, no theaters — and ideally, no gathering with people outside your household at all.

5 years ago

A child wears a protective mask while playing in April in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
NPR
Health

Over 1 million children tested positive for coronavirus in the United States

Children now make up at least 1 in 11 of all reported U.S. coronavirus cases.

5 years ago

Dr. Ala Stanford, a pediatric surgeon, holds COVID-19 testing materials outside the mobile testing site of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus outbreak hits nearly a dozen Philly election staffers

There’s no evidence so far of a large outbreak at the Pa. Convention Center vote-counting site.

5 years ago

Drive-through test sites like this one in Delaware are popping up around the Philly region. (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Health

Data breach affects 10,000 tested for COVID-19 in Delaware

The information of 10,000 Delawareans who got tested for COVID-19 over the summer was accidentally sent to an unauthorized person.

5 years ago

Listen 1:38
A restaurant on 16th Street in Center City uses the street for outdoor dining. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Health

Inside Philly’s new COVID-19 restrictions

Coronavirus is surging in Philly, and asking people to distance isn't stopping the spread — so the city is entering a new phase of life in lockdown

Air Date: November 16, 2020

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A woman walks out of a drugstore in Times Square
NPR
Health

US hits 11 million coronavirus cases, adding 1 million in a week

More than 11 million confirmed coronavirus cases have been recorded in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins. The country recorded 166,555 new cases in the last day.

5 years ago

Moderna in Cambridge, Mass.
NPR
Health

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 95% effective, analysis finds

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 95% effective in preventing illness, according to an interim analysis of a clinical test involving 30,000 people.

5 years ago

West Side Grows held a Halloween event for the children of Wilmington's West Side neighborhood. Masks were given distributed to attendants. (Courtesy of Jason McCall)
Health

Looking across time: A yearlong study will focus on Delaware communities hit hardest by COVID-19

Nine communities will be researched for a year to determine behavioral factors contributing to the virus. The aim: to empower them to protect themselves.

5 years ago

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