Health & Science

The pools will open for about five weeks, and for now be limited to 60 percent of capacity. COVID-19 health and safety precautions are required.

New Jersey schools will offer some form of in-person instruction this fall, but many students may also learn remotely, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday.

Some counties are leaning on trusted community messengers to improve contact tracing success.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise, says Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, who announced a mandatory mask order.

With numbers spiking across southern states, the U.S. set a daily record for new COVID-19 cases Thursday in a return to figures not seen since late April.

COVID-19 hasn’t just changed the world — it’s transformed the way we live. On a national scale, it has upended politics and flatten ...

With rampant unemployment and several meat-packing plants linked to COVID-19 outbreaks, many people are turning to at-home horticulture for relief.

Delaware will not move into phase three just yet — which would allow bars to reopen and visits to senior living facilities and hospitals.

The carcass of a critically endangered whale species was found floating off the coast of New Jersey on Thursday, federal authorities said.

Coronavirus update: Counties prep to loosen restrictions - WHYY

The mortality rate during the pandemic’s apex rose by 30% compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019.

The imposing shell of the shuttered safety-net facility has become a symbol of inequity in health care amid a pandemic that has hit Philly's Black population especially hard.

The estimation comes as the Trump administration works to tamp down nationwide concern about the pandemic and about a dozen states are seeing worrisome case increases.

As coronavirus clusters have popped up, states are using contact tracing to learn more about how they're contributing to the spread of the virus.

State officials want the USDA to extend waivers that allow them to provide SNAP benefits safely during the pandemic.