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Philadelphia International Airport hallway (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
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Billy Penn

Airport workers to get coronavirus training as PHL ramps up response

Philly International is not a designated “screener” location, but does have a CDC quarantine station.

6 years ago

The Pulse
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Outbreak 1793

COVID-19 — a coronavirus disease — is spreading around the world, putting people and governments on high alert. How will we respond t ...

Air Date: March 4, 2020

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File photo: Hundreds gathered in South Philly to celebrate the temporary defeat of a supervised injection site in their neighborhood and protest putting one there in the future. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Health

Civic groups argue supervised injection site will boost crime

Neighborhood groups joined the FOP in supporting U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s effort to keep the nonprofit’s supervised injection site from opening.

6 years ago

Laurie Cleveland of the Sourland Conservancy scoops up a wood frog to help it across the road, while volunteers with headlamps and flashlights patrol try to save the amphibians from being crushed by passing cars. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science

N.J. crossing guards protect amphibians making deadly trek for love

The Sourland Conservancy has operated an amphibian crossing guard program for five years — with a focus on the spotted salamander.

6 years ago

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Health

Why are so many more children nearsighted these days?

One in three Americans now have myopia. Kids who spend lots of time indoors are five times more at risk of developing it, research shows.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine. (Commonwealth Media Services)
Science

Pa. state lab can now test for coronavirus, but its capability is limited

Pa.'s Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said getting test results from the state-run lab in Exton is reducing the turn-around time significantly.

6 years ago

A woman wears protective masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus at the airport in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)
Health

Two more Delaware patients test negative for coronavirus

Both had recently traveled to a country where the virus is active. To date, five Delaware residents have tested negative.

6 years ago

A monitor displaying a map of Asia and a tally of total coronavirus cases, deaths, and recovered, is visible behind Vice President Mike Pence, center, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, as they tour the Secretary's Operations Center following a coronavirus task force meeting at the Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
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Preparing for the coronavirus

We talk about the coronavirus, its spread to the U.S., the government's response, and steps people should take to be prepared.

Air Date: March 3, 2020 10:00 am

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Supporters wear medical masks, as fears of coronavirus increase in California, during a campaign rally for Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in Los Angeles on March 1, 2020. (David McNew/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Coronavirus and Super Tuesday voting: It’s touchy

Elections can be very tactile. Touchscreen voting machines, paper ballots, large crowds.

6 years ago

Jerry Solomon, of West Lampeter Township, rolls the stone slab that covers his private well water pump at the back of his home on Dec. 9, 2019. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Can your well water make you sick? No testing is required in Pennsylvania.

Shirley and Bob Redcay, of Denver, were sure their home was getting clean drinking water from the brand-new well on their property.

6 years ago

City council person Mark Squilla speaks at a press conference with other local officials about Senate Bill 933 which would prohibit supervised infection sites unless they are authorized by local governments. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Two bills in Harrisburg to regulate supervised injection sites

Two separate efforts progressing in Harrisburg to regulate supervised injection sites, including a complete ban.

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

No positive tests for coronavirus in Pa., N.J., Del

New Jersey and Delaware officials said Monday that their states still had no confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.

6 years ago

Temple University campus at North Broad Street in Philadelphia (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Temple, University of Delaware cancel programs in Rome over coronavirus

Temple University ends semester in Rome promises on-line completion to semester.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is pictured in this Jan. 15, 2019 file photo (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Health

Watch: Governor Murphy holds coronavirus preparedness press conference

Governor Phil Murphy outlines New Jersey’s preparedness activities related to the outbreak of novel coronavirus on March 2, 2020, in Trenton.

6 years ago

Stocking up on medical supplies and food could be helpful if the new coronavirus spreads in your community and you want to avoid store lines where you could be at risk of infection from others.  (Max Posner/NPR)
NPR
Health

A guide: How to prepare your home for coronavirus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is telling Americans that they should be prepared for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in their community.

6 years ago

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