Health & Science

Pennsylvania’s Department of Health said Wednesday that it is working to distribute an antiviral drug, remdesivir, to hospitals across the commonwealth.

Significant change is afoot at the Jersey Shore with Memorial Day weekend looming, and social distancing will certainly be a major aspect as crowds arrive.

MBK Cares has reached more than 1,000 people during quarantine.

The state has purchased 200,000 saliva-based test kits from a California-based company as it eyes administering 80,000 tests a month.

Suicide prevention advocates are doubling down to bolster the resilience of Americans who are suffering from feelings of despair during the pandemic.

Total fatalities investigated and ultimately linked to respiratory disorders rose from just seven between February and April of last year to 129 this year.

Babies are safer in a crib than on an adult bed or a sofa.

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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