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Dr. Ala Stanford administers a COVID-19 swab test on Wade Jeffries in the parking lot of Pinn Memorial Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Stanford and other doctors formed the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to offer testing and help address heath disparities in the African American community. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Pa. coronavirus recovery: Free COVID-19 testing in Strawberry Mansion

The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium will provide free COVID tests at Mander Recreation Center in Strawberry Mansion for people in the community experiencing symptoms Aug 8.

5 years ago

Trenton, N.J. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
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N.J. coronavirus recovery: State announces $25 million landlord assistance program

The initiative will provide aid to landlords with three to 10 units in their buildings who collected partial or no rent payments from April to July.

5 years ago

Football and other fall scholastic sports are canceled for now in Delaware. (Smyrna High School)
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Delaware cancels fall sports, eyes shortened seasons starting in December

Seasons were abruptly stopped in March. Athletes and their advocates set their sights on the fall, but for now, that won’t happen.

5 years ago

Potential COVID-19 vaccines are kept in a tray at Novavax labs in Maryland on March 20. The Novavax vaccine requires an immune-boosting ingredient called an adjuvant to be effective. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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The special sauce that makes some vaccines work

Adjuvants play a big role in many vaccines' effectiveness. Scientists say there needs to be more research into developing a variety of adjuvants because of their importance.

5 years ago

From left to right; contact tracers Christella Uwera, Dishell Freeman and Alejandra Camarillo work at Harris County Public Health Contact Tracing facility in Houston, Texas, Thursday, June 25, 2020. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
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Coronavirus cases are surging. The contact tracing workforce is not

NPR surveyed all 50 states about their contact tracing work. The workforce has barely grown since mid-June while cases have skyrocketed.

5 years ago

Penn State doctoral student Stephanie Herbstritt shows the hairy ligule in switchgrass that's growing on a Penn State research plot in Centre County. (Anne Danahy/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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Some faculty’s environmental science research on hold, while others find work around, in face of COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit Pa. in March, universities shut down and suspended some lab work and field research. For environmental scientists, it's been a big change.

5 years ago

Medical personnel work in the emergency department at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan
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Nurses Taking Charge

Nurses have been a part of every aspect of care with the coronavirus pandemic — taking care of patients, communicating with families, w ...

Air Date: August 7, 2020

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These COVID-19 patients survived. But they never recovered

Some people have symptoms that persist for weeks or even months. Doctors are only beginning to learn why.

5 years ago

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An empty SEPTA train car. (Anna Orso/Billy Penn)
PlanPhilly
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SEPTA trains and buses have great airflow — which means less coronavirus risk for riders

Along with mask-wearing, health officials say good airflow is key to avoiding infection in enclosed spaces.

5 years ago

Basketball player (Courtesy of Pixabay)
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Pa. coronavirus recovery: Wolf recommends halting high school sports, Upper Darby quarantines entire sanitation dept

Governor Tom Wolf surprised school athletic departments Thursday with an announcement that he doesn’t want high school sports to continue during the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

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

Coronavirus testing in the US is dropping, even as deaths mount

An Associated Press analysis found that the number of tests per day slid 3.6% over the past two weeks to 750,000, with the count falling in 22 states.

5 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus, Friday, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)
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Fauci reveals he has received death threats and his daughters have been harassed

Dr. Anthony Fauci shared in a forum hosted by Harvard, that he and has been subjected to death threats.

5 years ago

A medical worker draws blood at a free COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 serology antibody testing community event in Los Angeles on Wednesday. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
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FDA adviser: Not realistic to expect a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020

Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who serves on a panel advising the FDA, doesn't think a vaccine will be ready before the end of the year.

5 years ago

Sussex Correctional Institution (State of Delaware)
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Second man with COVID-19 dies at Sussex prison that had major outbreak

More than 1 in 3 of the prisoners were infected but more than 90% have recovered. Two are currently hospitalized.

5 years ago

Farmers work during a harvest in Jutland, Denmark. People keep worrying about food shortages. Some economists say the fears actually create their own problems. (Nick Brundle Photography/Getty Images)
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Science

Food is growing more plentiful, so why do people keep warning of shortages?

Some researchers say the main reason that millions of people are malnourished globally is that people lack the money to buy food, or because of war and political oppression.

5 years ago

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