Health & Science

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimated at least 750,000 rapid point-of-care tests are needed weekly to guide the country out of the pandemic.

Before COVID-19, the 1918 pandemic changed our world and with it, home design. This is how a century-old pandemic inspired the modern bathroom.

What if you don't have COVID-19 symptoms, but you do have an earache or a child with a rash? These days, many more people are getting diagnosed via calls or video chats.

The state reported a total of 6,815 coronavirus cases associated with long-term care facilities.

Through Wednesday, more than half of the Delawareans who died lived in nursing homes. WHYY found that residents comprise 5% of the state’s cases.

Ten sites around Philadelphia are now providing free food, diapers and other supplies for babies.

The Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking Governor Tom Wolf to grant temporary immunity from malpractice claims to healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The elderly are among the most susceptible to coronavirus. So why are long-term care centers admitting COVID-19-positive patients?

Many nursing home residents have conditions that make them especially vulnerable to coronavirus. They account for 24 of 43 deaths in the state so far.

The health system, which employs 8,000 workers, instructed leadership to choose which positions to temporarily cut.

The city still won’t release the total numbers of frontline workers’ with the virus.

The state Department of Health is not making hospital preparedness plans available or overseeing whether hospitals are following those plans.

The actual rate of coronavirus patients needing hospitalization has been about half of state projections.

While expressing some optimism that the curve is flattening, Murphy questioned how they could loosen any restrictions without greater testing capacity.

Is it possible to be infected with the coronavirus and show no symptoms? Or go through a period of several days before symptoms kick in?