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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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President Donald Trump signs an $8.3 billion bill to fight the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Friday, March 6, 2020 at the White House in Washington, as Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, looks on. The legislation provides federal public health agencies with money for vaccines, tests and potential treatments and helps state and local governments prepare and respond to the threat. The rapid spread of the virus has rocked financial markets, interrupted travel and threatens to affect everyday life in the United States. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Health

Trump signs $8.3B bill to combat coronavirus outbreak in U.S.

The bill provides federal public health agencies with money for vaccines, tests and potential treatments and helps state, local governments prepare and respond to the threat.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania and New Jersey officials disclosed additional presumed positive cases of coronavirus Sunday, bringing each state’s totals to six. (California Department of Public Health via AP Photo)
Health

Pa. Gov. Wolf signs emergency declaration after 2 confirmed coronavirus cases

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday morning the state's first two cases of coronavirus, one in Delaware County and one in Wayne County.

6 years ago

Central Bucks South High School (NBC10)
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Central Bucks District closes five schools over coronavirus exposure

Coronavirus exposure closes five schools in the Central Bucks School District out of an “abundance of caution,” no cases in Pa. confirmed yet.

6 years ago

X-rays showing a spine with scoliosis before and after surgery. (Image courtesy of Shriners Hospitals for Children — Philadelphia)
The Pulse
Health

Rope or rod? Torn between scoliosis surgeries

One’s tried and true. The other’s promising, but uncharted in the long term. Which would you choose?

6 years ago

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Sarah Bouboulis, Habitat Specialist at the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary in Wilmington, Delaware, carefully walks down a small mountain of oyster shells ready to be recycled.  (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Science

Oyster shell recycling moves to the masses in Delaware

Forget farm-to-table, a new pilot program is taking oyster shells from table to bay. Recycled shells will become living shorelines and new oyster habitat.

6 years ago

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The Pulse
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Changing Treatments

Medicine is always changing. New treatments become available. Old ones become obsolete. But how does a treatment become established? How ...

Air Date: March 6, 2020

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Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Audrey McAvoy/AP Photo)
Health
Billy Penn

What do you want to know about the coronavirus in Philly?

Tell us your most pressing questions regarding COVID-19.

6 years ago

This Feb. 6, 2015, file photo shows a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic in Greenbrae, Calif. (Eric Risberg/AP Photo)
Health

Delaware works to contain mumps outbreak in New Castle County schools

Health officials are working to control a mumps outbreak among school children in New Castle County, Del.

6 years ago

A woman, who declined to give her name, wears a mask in New York out of concern for the coronavirus. Experts say the masks do not necessarily help prevent the spread of the virus. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
Health

N.J. now has four patients who tested positive for COVID-19

Acting Gov. Oliver announced immediate restrictions on state-related business travel, international and short trips, such as to New York and Philadelphia.

6 years ago

FILE- In this March 2, 2020 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, right, is joined by Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, center, during a news conference in Ewing, N.J., Monday, March 2, 2020. On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Murphy, Persichilli and Acting Governor Sheila Oliver announced the first presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in New Jersey. The individual, a male in his 30s, is hospitalized in Bergen County and has been hospitalized since March 3. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Health

N.J. health officials confirm the state’s 1st positive test of new coronavirus

A man in his 30s who is hospitalized in Bergen County has New Jersey’s first positive test for COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement Wednesday.

6 years ago

Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii. (Audrey McAvoy/AP Photo)
Science
Broke in Philly

What if you want a COVID-19 test but don’t have health insurance?

Now that test kits are more available, there has been some concern fear of cost might deter underinsured or uninsured Americans from getting tested.

6 years ago

Protesters gather in a parking lot at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery office on Passayunk Avenue in South Philadelphia on Feb. 9, 2020. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Pa. proposes to relax non-residential lead cleanup standards

If approved, the lead concentration allowed on the first 2 feet of sites like the PES refinery complex would rise from 1,000 parts per million to 2,500 ppm.

6 years ago

The Ruth Williams House at Broad and Boston Streets in Philadelphia has 88 units for those in need of affordable housing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Health
Broke in Philly

Philly’s homeless shelters prepare for unique challenge coronavirus brings

A lot of cleaning and monitoring for symptoms is going on since close quarters would make it hard for residents to keep a distance from an ill individual.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine (Commonwealth Media Services)
Health

Pennsylvania says it is speeding up coronavirus testing

The lab can now handle about 25 samples a day and that rate should increase in the coming days after it gets a piece of equipment that boosts its testing capacity.

6 years ago

A closeup of a spotted lanternfly
Science

Pennsylvania adds 12 counties to lanternfly quarantine zone

The invasive spotted lanternfly is continuing its westward march across Pa., with state agriculture officials nearly doubling the number of counties in a quarantine zone.

6 years ago

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