Health & Science

"I stand by my words," says Dr. James Phillips, who said the president's decision to drive by supporters while being treated for COVID-19 endangered his security detail.

While vaccines provide hope of a more normal 2021, Pennsylvania is not considering pulling back COVID-19 mitigation efforts prior to when they expire on Jan. 4.

Early in the pandemic, people were advised to disinfect everything they touched. Now that scientists understand more about COVID, all that scrubbing may be overkill.

More than 7,000 New Jersey long-term care facility residents and staff have died due to COVID-19, prompting a federal investigation.

What’s it like to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Some of the first people to receive it described how it felt to WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk.

In recent weeks, it's not just the number of positive cases that has increased, overwhelming case investigators, but also the number of contacts that each of those people has.

The emergence of COVID-19 started scientists on a year-long, crash course to learn how this virus travels through the air and how to stop it. They learned a lot, and quickly.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new testing mandate for U.K. travelers coming into the U.S. after an outbreak of a new coronavirus variant in England.

We all know that drinking a lot of alcohol is bad for your health. It’s tied to heart disease, heightened risk for some cancers, addict ...

The state's hospitalizations have reached levels not seen since mid-May, but the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps crew say they're only getting a handful of COVID calls.

In March, a coronavirus outbreak at St. Joseph's in Woodbridge, New Jersey, led state officials to evacuate all 78 of its residents. Within weeks, nearly half were dead.

Nurses in overtaxed hospitals are afraid that people aren't taking precautions as coronavirus cases surge, and they especially fear what's next.

NPR's survey finds the contact tracing workforce now tops 70K, a dramatic increase in the last two months. But to truly meet the growing demand, new federal funding is key.

Could smoke carry disease-causing microorganisms? "It's a very new idea to think of smoke as having a living component."

Murphy noted that the increase in infections and hospitalizations after Thanksgiving was “better than we feared” but said it was no time for the state to let its guard down.