Health & Science

Gov. Phil Murphy has once again signed an executive order to extend New Jersey’s public health emergency, citing a steep increase in coronavirus cases in recent days.

Cases of the virus have been rising in the U.S. since mid-September.

The memorial opened as Pennsylvania experiences another surge of the deadly coronavirus.

“Daily increases are now comparable with what we saw in April 2020,” said a press release from the state’s Department of Health.

The employee was a member of the medical staff and that the center was responding by cleaning the building and contact tracing.

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It had been authorized for use on an emergency basis since spring, and now becomes the first drug to win full Food and Drug Administration approval for treating COVID-19.

Applications to the Well City Challenge will be accepted Oct. 26 through Nov. 20.

In a study published Wednesday, the CDC and Vermont health officials found that multiple short exposures to people confirmed to have COVID-19 led to transmission of the virus.

When storms intensify and flooding increases, it takes a toll on the banks of our region’s creeks and streams. Are WHYY readers and listeners right to be worried?

A social worker and a disaster expert describe the things Philly can do to recover from coronavirus and heal the injustices revealed by the pandemic.

On learning the news, the governor left a Camden County press conference about jobs, saying he needed to get away to be tested.

When a Latina woman went to the hospital, a doctor dismissed her COVID symptoms. Is unconscious bias one reason people of color are disproportionately affected by the virus?

More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments help, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling.

We discuss how the U.S. pandemic response get derailed and ways to stay safe and sane this winter as Covid rates rise.