
How some of Pa.’s public utility companies are adjusting during COVID-19
StateImpact Pennsylvania reporter Susan Phillips talks to `Morning Edition’ host Jennifer Lynn about COVID-19’s effect on power, water, and gas companies.
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Listen 5:30How not to hate your partner: 7 tips to help your relationship survive Philly’s lockdown
If your partner loads the dishwasher, thank them. Seriously.
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Delco asks for volunteers to staff new overflow center, and hundreds respond
Last weekend, Delaware County made an urgent request for 700 medical volunteers at its new overflow medical center. Hundreds have responded.
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Tips for keeping it together during coronavirus outbreak, and resources to find help
At best, people are stuck inside. At worst, they’re working in incredibly stressful conditions, or isolated from friends and family. This is not an easy time.
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‘Strapped for finances’: Pa. college students scramble for resources amid coronavirus closures
As colleges and universities across the country have been forced to pivot to a virtual, deep inequities of opportunity can leave students falling through the cracks.
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With underemployed goats and closed restaurants, farmers brace for coronavirus losses
N.J. and Pa. farmers are bracing themselves as business drops and commodity prices fall while the COVID-19 pandemic rages. They see little help on the way.
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Listen 3:09Delaware researcher: Loneliness could weaken immune system
If you’re stuck at home and feeling lonely, it’s more than heartache you need to be worried about. Loneliness could contribute to a poor immune response.
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SEPTA seeks 10,000 face masks as pandemic continues to take a toll on transit service
SEPTA is racing against the pandemic’s spread, continuing to adapt to heightened risks and a reduced workforce that is calling for more protections.
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‘Essential’ and unsafe: Frontline workers of color face compounded risks
COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate when it infects. But some 'racialized patterns’ emerge as the pandemic widens.
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Philadelphia could close a section of Spruce Street for tent hospital
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania may put a field hospital on a public street, the first commandeering of open land for medical use since 1918.
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Watch live: White House news briefing on U.S. coronavirus response
The White House Coronavirus Task Force gives an update on the nation’s current COVID-19 situation as the number of reported cases of the virus in the U.S. grows.
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No-visitor coronavirus policies separate kids in residential treatment from families
Intended to protect the physical health of young patients at behavioral facilities, the guidelines can exact a toll on their mental health, too.
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In one of the quickest meetings in Philadelphia City Council history, members approved $85.4 million in emergency funding to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Coronavirus update: N.J. unemployment claims hit record high. Again.
Nearly 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the past two weeks.
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Coronavirus update: Delaware issues more stringent COVID-19 restrictions
The latest update to the state of emergency orders businesses to take more steps to enforce social distancing at the workplace.
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