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Health & Science

Virus Outbreak New York
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US, European leaders weigh reopening risks without a vaccine

In separate stark warnings, two major world leaders bluntly told their citizens that they need to adapt to living with COVID-19 and cannot wait to be saved by a vaccine.

6 years ago

Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch during the U.S. national championships swimming meet
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Autopsy: Pilot in Kobe Bryant crash had no alcohol, drugs

The report made it clear: Bryant and the passengers almost certainly were dead in an instant due to blunt trauma.

6 years ago

In this Wednesday, May 13, 2020 photo, Meghan Peck works on contact tracing at the Florida Dept. of Health in Miami-Dade County, during the new coronavirus pandemic, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Health

Local health agencies struggle to ramp up virus tracking

They are often hundreds — even thousands — of people short of targets for their contact tracing programs.

6 years ago

Antiviral drug
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Coronavirus update: Pa. hospitals get more remdesivir; fishing charters, boat rentals resume in N.J. Sunday

More than 9,000 doses of the experimental drug are slated for distribution to hospitals across the state to treat COVID-19 infections.

6 years ago

President Trump's administration
NPR
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Replace Trump and bolster the CDC, a leading medical journal urges

The unsigned editorial sharply criticizes the Trump administration, saying it has marginalized the CDC to a degree that is dangerous for both the U.S. and the world.

6 years ago

The process of getting a saliva-based test takes only a few minutes.  (Courtesy of Agatha Bacelar for Curative Inc.)
Health

COVID-19 testing for people without symptoms draws 600 in Delaware

The state’s purchase of 200,000 tests gives officials the ability to test up to 80,000 people monthly for the virus that has already infected more than 7,000 residents.

6 years ago

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie speaks about protecting seniors, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Health

VA says it won’t stop use of unproven drug on vets for now

Facing growing criticism, the VA said Friday that it will not halt use of an unproven malaria drug on veterans with COVID-19 but that fewer of its patients are now taking it.

6 years ago

Maureen May, a registered nurse in the infant intensive care unit at Temple University Hospital. (Courtesy Maureen May)
Health
Spotlight PA

Pa.’s largest nurses’ union accuses hospitals of misinforming state officials about protective equipment

The state’s largest nurses’ union says health-care workers don’t have essential face masks, access to testing, and other safety measures.

6 years ago

A sign reminds people to social distance during the coronavirus pandemic in Secaucus, New Jersey, on Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. tops 10,000 deaths, sets rules for July 7 primary

Gov. Phil Murphy also said hospitals could resume elective produce on May 26, while the state will hold grand jury proceedings over Zoom.

6 years ago

Delaware National Guard Private Kyeremen sets up a station for packaged food pick-up on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, at Frederick Lodge Manufactured Home Community in Townsend, Del. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Delaware issues Phase 1 reopening guidelines

Gov. John Carney unveiled a 25-page plan to launch Phase 1 of reopening the state including guidance for restaurants, retail stores and other locations.

6 years ago

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)
Health

CDC alerts doctors to COVID-19 linked condition in children

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors about a serious rare inflammatory condition in children linked with the coronavirus.

6 years ago

A Black doctor performs a free COVID-19 test in the parking lot of the West Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church. (Christopher Norris for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Health

Racial disparity grows as the coronavirus disproportionately claims Black lives in Pa., Jersey and Delaware

Doctors say that information about the virus’ community-specific impacts will only become more critical as the economy reopens.

6 years ago

Waiting rooms in hospitals and doctors' offices will look different because of social distancing requirements. (Bigstock/galitskaya)
Health

Philly area health networks are slowly bringing back elective surgeries, in-person visits

Health networks say they are now better prepared with COVID-19 tests and precautions, so can slowly bring patients for in-person visits and procedures.

6 years ago

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Crested Butte Mountains
The Pulse
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Science Interrupted: The Impact of Coronavirus

Around the globe, COVID-19 has frozen economies, closed schools, stores, and restaurants, and even canceled the Olympics. Millions of peo ...

Air Date: May 15, 2020

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Bicyclists, joggers, and walkers are seen on the Schuylkill River Trail
The Pulse
Health

Has the coronavirus shutdown improved air quality? Is our air really cleaner?

EPA data for ozone levels and particulate matter doesn’t show big changes, but our bodies may feel a subtle, fresher difference.  

6 years ago

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