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Health & Science

Medical workers prepare to use a swab to administer a coronavirus test at a drive-through center on March 21 in Jericho, N.Y. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
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Health

Despite early warnings, U.S. took months to expand swab production for COVID-19 test

The COVID-19 testing process has been plagued by missing components, including swabs, reagents and the chemical solution that keeps samples fresh.

6 years ago

Spanish Flu
Health

A brief history of pandemics in Philly and the myth of race-based immunity

The misbelief that Blacks are immune to pandemics isn’t novel. Its history goes as far back as 1793.

6 years ago

Piping plover with chicks in Cape May, N.J. (Courtesy of Kevin Karlson)
Down the Shore
Science

2019 was a record year for piping plovers along the Atlantic coast

The endangered piping plovers saw record-setting numbers along the Atlantic coast in 2019, federal officials say.

6 years ago

The 25th annual Kids Count Fact Book shows more than 12% of Delaware children live in poverty, about the same as 25 years ago. (Courtesy Kids Count in Delaware)
Health

Delaware kids living in poverty will be hurt further by the coronavirus, researchers say

The 25th annual Kids Count report was assembled before the coronavirus started spreading in Delaware, but the impact the virus will have on kids is obvious to researchers.

6 years ago

Molecular technologists work next to QuantStudio 12K Flex Real Time PCR machines that test for COVID-19 at MHS Labs, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Monroeville, Pa. (Matt Freed/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Health

Coronavirus update: Pa. distributes antiviral drug remdesivir to 51 hospitals

The federal government sent its first shipment of 1,200 doses of investigational antiviral drug remdesivir to the Pennsylvania Health Department on Tuesday.

6 years ago

A ground-mounted solar panel at Millersville University tracks the sun’s path across the sky. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

COVID-19 has slowed green energy industry, but experts say it should bounce back

“We’re all doing the best we can in the new normal here,” said Kevin Gombotz, vice president of Envinity, a green design and construction company.

6 years ago

Coronavirus rapid test
Health
Billy Penn

Rapid testing is coming to Philly and could trim wait from days to minutes

Officials say more tests and speedy results are key to reopening the economy.

6 years ago

Scott Hoffman sits on his porch in Sunbury, Northumberland County, on April 29, 2020. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Health
PA Post

A Pa. company switched from sewing football jerseys to face masks. Workers walked off, saying the plan was unsafe

“It wasn’t about getting masks out to the public. It was about saving his company and making as much money as possible."

6 years ago

New Jersey coronavirus response
Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. opens registration for up to 5,000 contact tracers

The state also committed to testing all residents and staff at some 670 nursing homes over the next two weeks.

6 years ago

A nurse with ChristianaCare gives a free test for the coronavirus to a driver in Delaware. (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Delaware embarks on expansive contact tracing program

Gov. John Carney says contract tracing in conjunction with expanded testing initiative will pave the way to reopening the state’s economy.

6 years ago

Robert H. Frank's new book Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work examines the role of social influence in enacting larger social change.
Radio Times
Science

Peer pressure and social change

Do our individual actions matter? While policy change is critical, our individual actions carry the social influence necessary to make these changes possible.

Air Date: May 12, 2020

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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Health

Fauci warns of ‘suffering and death’ if US reopens too soon

Fauci’s testimony comes as President Trump is praising states that are reopening after the prolonged lock-down aimed at controlling the virus' spread.

6 years ago

This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). (CDC via AP, File)
Health

New coronavirus test is imperfect step toward mass screening

A new type of coronavirus test offers a cheaper, quicker way to screen for infections

6 years ago

A patient room at CHOP
Health
Philadelphia Business Journal

CHOP offers families urgent care video visits during COVID-19 pandemic

The video visits are geared for non-emergency and non-life-threatening conditions such as rashes, fever, seasonal allergies and sore throats.

6 years ago

The marquee of the Campus Theatre in downtown Lewisburg, P.a, on Friday, May 8, 2020, tells moviegoers it hopes to reopen soon. Some of the retail shops in the town’s Market Street shopping strip reopened after about two months on Friday, with a  trickle of customers, as Union County was considered to be safe enough to begin to loosen social distancing restrictions. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)
Health

Coronavirus update: Wolf threatens to withhold funds from counties that go rogue

At least six Pa. counties have said they would no longer enforce the governor’s business shutdown orders, meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

6 years ago

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