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New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton
Health

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Deal on $9.9B borrowing plan; transmission rate dips

A four member legislative panel, which would include two members of the Senate and two members of the Assembly, would have to approve any borrowing.

5 years ago

People chant as they march in support of sex workers, Sunday, June 2, 2019, in Las Vegas. People marched in support of decriminalizing sex work and against the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, among other issues. (AP Photo/John Locher)
The Pulse
Health

FOSTA-SESTA was supposed to thwart sex trafficking. Instead, it’s sparked a movement

Why sex workers say the laws harm the most vulnerable among their ranks — and put their lives in danger.

5 years ago

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This GOES-16 satellite image taken at 9:30 UTC (5:30 a.m. EDT) on Friday, July 10, 2020 shows Tropical Storm Fay as it moves closer to land in the northeast of the United States. (NOAA via AP)
Science

Tropical Storm Fay shutters beaches as it heads north

Several beaches in Delaware had been temporarily closed because of the storm.

5 years ago

A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) heavily infected with particles (orange) from the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient sample. (NIAID)
NPR
Science

WHO: Aerosolized particles unlikely to be significant source of COVID-19 transmission

The World Health Organization has issued a new scientific brief that summarizes what's known about the different ways the coronavirus can transmit.

5 years ago

Philadelphia’s Safehouse injection site
The Pulse
Health

Do Less Harm

In sharp contrast to abstinence-only education or “Just Say No,” America has been moving toward a public health approach that doesn ...

Air Date: July 10, 2020

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Rosalind Pichardo, an outreach worker in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, has reversed 400 overdoses by her own count. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

One woman’s mission to make sure everyone carries Narcan — including drug dealers 

In Kensington, Rosalind Pichardo learned, people using drugs usually want to have Narcan on hand. Drug dealers were tougher to convince.

5 years ago

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Radio Times
Health

Boredom: making the most of it

Why does boredom drive some people to risky behaviors and others to creative ones? We'll learn how to channel boredom into something positive.

Air Date: July 9, 2020 10:00 am

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Lines of cars wait at a drive-through coronavirus testing site
Health

‘A hot mess’: Americans face testing delays as coronavirus surges

Some Americans are left to wonder why the U.S. can't seem to get its act together, especially after it was given fair warning as the virus spread in China and elsewhere.

5 years ago

A passerby wears a mask out of concern for the coronavirus while walking past an American flag displayed in Boston on Tuesday. The U.S. has now recorded more than 3 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
NPR
Health

3 million cases: Coronavirus continues to surge across U.S.

One million of those cases have been confirmed over the past month — part of a wave of infection that began after many states started to reopen their economies in May.

5 years ago

Saleemah McNeil is a Philly area psychotherapist. (Courtesy of Saleemah McNeil)
The Why
Health

Black therapist on mental health for POC in this historic moment

"What I've been able to do is relate to my clients when they are experiencing the systemic oppression and racism that weighs on all of our shoulders. I understand."

Air Date: July 7, 2020

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FILE - In this May 26, 2020 file photo, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a face mask with a logo of the Federal Police, leaves his official residence of Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil.  (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, FIle)
Health

Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

The president has often appeared in public to shake hands with supporters and mingle with crowds, at times without a mask.

5 years ago

Medical personnel prepare to test hundreds of people lined up in vehicles
Health

Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again

“We’re five months into this and there are still shortages of gowns, hair covers, shoe covers, masks, N95 masks,” said Deborah Burger, president of National Nurses United.

5 years ago

A sneeze can carry the coronavirus pathogen in droplets and in aerosols — and they could land on a surface, making it a fomite.
NPR
Health

Aerosols, droplets, fomites: What we know about transmission of COVID-19

Here's what we know about the novel coronavirus' different modes of transmission.

5 years ago

People waiting in line to enter a grocery store wear protective masks, Friday, July 3, 2020, in McCandless, Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf's more expansive mask order issued last week as the coronavirus shows new signs of life in Pennsylvania has been met with hostility from Republicans objecting to the Democrat's use of power or even to wearing a mask itself. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Radio Times
Health

Why can’t the U.S. get control of COVID-19 infections?

As COVID cases surge, we examine why in the U.S. pandemic response has failed, what we are learning about the virus, and why Pa. needed a mask mandate.

Air Date: July 7, 2020 10:00 am

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A cut tree stands in a burned area in Prainha
NPR
Health

U.N. predicts rise in diseases that jump from animals to humans due to habitat loss

Zoonotic pathogens, which include COVID-19, HIV/AIDS and Ebola, have increasingly emerged due to stresses humans have placed on animal habitats, according to a U.N. report.

5 years ago

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