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The Pulse
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Outbreaks and Epidemics: The Role of Public Health

You know you’ve made it when you get parodied on Saturday Night Live … by none other than Brad Pitt. And you really know you’ve ...

Air Date: May 1, 2020

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The Red Cross Blood Donation Center on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

How COVID-19 led to a blood shortage, and why that’s troubling

Blood donations by African Americans dropped by 50% since mid-March, when many drives were canceled. That affects sickle cell patients seeking a match.

6 years ago

Listen 1:37
City Hall in Philadelphia
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Philly Mayor Jim Kenney seeks tax hikes, service cuts to offset pandemic’s $649M bill

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the city’s budget. Kenney hopes to use tax increases to prevent major service reductions.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump
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US intel: Coronavirus not manmade, still studying lab theory

The conclusion of intelligence agencies comes as President Trump touts the as-yet-unproven theory that a Wuhan infectious disease lab was the source of the COVID pandemic.

6 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx
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Fauci warns states against ‘tempting’ a coronavirus rebound

Fauci’s warnings came after President Trump said the federal government would not extend its social distancing guidelines past Thursday.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump and Gov. Phil Murphy
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Coronavirus update: Murphy meets with Trump and gets 550,000 test kits

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy took his pressure campaign for direct cash assistance to the White House on Thursday. And came back with a promise of 550,000 test kits.

6 years ago

Block G is toured in the West section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Friday June 1, 2018 in Collegeville, Pa. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
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Two more people in Pa. state prisons die after testing positive for COVID-19

Two more people incarcerated in Pennsylvania state prisons have died after testing positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to three since the pandemic began.

6 years ago

Motorists line up at a drive-through COVID-19 testing center in the Motor Vehicle Commission parking lot in Camden, New Jersey. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Residents with no COVID-19 symptoms seek tests at new Camden County site, are turned away

Camden County’s new COVID-19 testing site opened Wednesday, drawing many people without symptoms who said they also should be tested.

6 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney (City of Philadelphia)
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Coronavirus update: Mayor Kenney announces first steps for reopening Philadelphia

Philadelphia will start lifting its coronavirus restrictions by reopening golf courses and resuming construction projects.

6 years ago

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Health

Gilead drug proves effective against coronavirus in US study

U.S. government officials say an experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study.

6 years ago

Miriam Casillas stands guard outside the Acme in Pike Creek, making sure shoppers are wearing a mask. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Health

Masks might be uncomfortable, but they are Delaware’s required ‘new normal’

Gov. John Carney’s latest executive order took effect Tuesday morning. His public health director says it should last “for quite some time.”

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: Sussex hot spot accounts for bulk of Delaware’s new cases

About 70 percent of new cases reported Wednesday by the Delaware Division of Public Health were in Sussex County, the state’s coronavirus hot spot.

6 years ago

Stevens Park in Hoboken, N.J.
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Coronavirus update: N.J. to reopen parks, freelancers get unemployment

The reopenings take effect Saturday. Freelancers and gig workers to start receiving unemployment payments.

6 years ago

President Trump spoke in the East Room of the White House Tuesday spoke about supporting small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic through the Paycheck Protection Program. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
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The U.S. hits 1 million coronavirus cases, one-third of all the world’s cases

More Americans have now died from coronavirus in less than two months than in the entire nine years of the Vietnam war — more than 58,000.

6 years ago

The Pavilion originally wasn't slated to open until 2021. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
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Billy Penn

Penn Medicine’s new $1.5 billion tower is ready to accept patients

Construction was accelerated to make 120 new beds available for a possible COVID surge.

6 years ago

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