Nina Feldman

What’s it like to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Some of the first people to receive it described how it felt to WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk.

WHYY’s readers and listeners shared their concerns. Our Health Desk Help Desk addresses them here.

Readers and listeners reached out with questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. Our Health Desk Help Desk offers up the answers.

Dr. Ala Stanford has had the virus and thought she’d wait for natural antibodies to protect her. But she realized others would only see what she wasn’t doing.

Black people have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Many of them are the most distrustful of a vaccine.

They’ve set up ultra-cold storage, prioritized who goes first, and created inoculation rotations so frontline workers can get shots when the doses arrive.

Too many cases and hollowed-out public health budgets leave officials to ask even more of the people who get sick.

Earlier this month, nurses at 4 hospitals authorized strikes over safe staffing ratios, other issues. St. Mary nurses and Trinity Health have yet to agree.

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said, unchecked, the rising infection and fatality rates could strain hospital resources.

Since Nov. 12, the city Medical Examiner's office has confirmed three overdose deaths among restaurant and bar workers who thought they were using cocaine.

As the virus hospitalizes more people across the region, the 700-plus nurses say there aren’t enough of them on staff to keep patients safe.

There’s no evidence so far of a large outbreak at the Pa. Convention Center vote-counting site.