Health & Science

Philadelphia health officials say COVID-19 hospitalizations have jumped 48% in less than two weeks.

Heatwaves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

Across the U.S., the surge has swamped hospitals and left nurses and other health care workers shorthanded and burned out.

There's been resistance to wearing masks and many people report they're reluctant to getting a COVID vaccine. This hour, how to get people to think and act more pro-socially.

With COVID-19 surging from coast to coast, the number of hospitalized patients has more than doubled over the past month, pushing health care workers to the breaking point.

New Jersey officials are urging all visitors entering the state as well as returning residents to self-quarantine for 14 days.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention trimmed its recommended quarantine for possible exposure — from 14 days to seven or 10, depending on test results and symptoms.

A federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire on Dec. 31. Kathryn Leifheit of UCLA says new data suggest evictions are linked to increases in COVID cases and deaths.

Social distancing fell dramatically between spring and fall and the gap between Democrats and Republicans widened. But both ends of the political spectrum agree on some measur

The head of the United Nations is calling on countries to end what he calls a war on nature and instead embrace a future without carbon pollution triggering global warming.

U.S. health officials say staying home for the upcoming winter holidays is the best way to stay safe and protect others.

Some panel members and other experts had also grown concerned by comments from Trump administration officials that suggested differing vaccine priorities.

The daily case count reported Tuesday was the highest of the pandemic and hospitalizations have risen more than 150 percent in the last month.

Since Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Erie, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties have their own health departments, they are excluded from the testing expansion.

European regulators may approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech within four weeks, the EU’s drug agency said Tuesday.