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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.

Less than one week into the delayed racing season, Delaware Park officials have lowered maximum attendance to better monitor COVID-19 compliance.

The U.S. has the most cases of any country in the world, and many states are reporting sharp rises in new cases as they ease shutdown orders.

Immigration advocates say the hospital would have been violating its ethical obligations to care for the man, injured in a traffic accident and uninsured.

Violators are subject to a municipal disorderly conduct citation, according to the emergency order.

New cases in the U.S. have been surging for more than a week after trending down for more than six weeks.

About 2.3 million Americans have been infected and some 120,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

A team is scheduled to make only one trip to each city it visits in MLB's shortest season since 1878.

A new paper finds that many of the people studied developed signs of minor lung inflammation while exhibiting no other symptoms of coronavirus.

Lead is a top topic at the inaugural meeting of Assembly special committee; finding the funds to deal with it remains a chief sticking point.