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Health Care

A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021
Health

COVID-19 boosters on backburner for most U.S. pro sports leagues

Even as cases continue to crop up, the NFL and NHL have no current plans to follow the NBA’s lead of requiring an additional dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

4 years ago

Nurse manager Melva Lane takes a bite of one of the chocolate chip cookies delivered by Delcastle students. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Delaware students try to sweeten day for hospital staffers amid latest COVID spike

Culinary students from Delcastle Technical High School deliver 12,000 cookies to ChristianaCare workers amid the latest COVID spike.

4 years ago

The exterior of the Supreme Court
Courts & Law

Court won’t stop Texas abortion ban, but OKs clinics’ suit

The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.

4 years ago

A a registered nurse works on a computer while assisting a COVID-19 patient
Health

Jennersville and Brandywine hospitals in Chester County to close

Tower Health says a deal with Texas-based hospital management firm Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC has fallen apart and left it no options.

4 years ago

A critical care nurse administers an anti-viral medication to a COVID-positive patien
Health

COVID surge: Pennsylvania hospital chain runs out of beds

Statewide, an average of 3,900 people per day have been hospitalized with COVID-19 over the past two weeks, up 50% in a month.

4 years ago

Hands are pictured preparing a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

N.J. coronavirus update: State may have a ‘handful’ of cases of the omicron variant

Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Persichelli confirmed that the state lab had conducted sequencing on three suspected cases and the results are pending.

4 years ago

An electron microscope image shows a human T cell under attack by HIV
Health

Philadelphia’s 2020 HIV rates mirror reduced screenings over the pandemic

Diagnoses in people who inject drugs were rising before the pandemic. Health officials worry now about spread among people who don’t know their HIV status.

4 years ago

A pharmacist prepares a syringe of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19
Health
Health Desk Help Desk

I’m vaccinated but got COVID-19 anyway. Now what?

With omicron on everyone’s minds, people are concerned about breakthrough infections. How do you proceed if you think you’ve had one?

4 years ago

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People protest a COVID vaccine mandate
NPR
Health

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

An NPR analysis shows that since the vaccine rollout, counties that voted heavily for Trump have had more than twice the COVID mortality rates of those that voted for Biden.

4 years ago

A person takes COVID-19 test at mobile testing site near Grand Central Terminal on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, in New York. The omicron variant of COVID-19, which had been undetected in the U.S. before the middle of this week, had been discovered in at least five states by the end of Thursday, showing yet again how mutations of the virus can circumnavigate the globe with speed and ease
Health

More omicron detected as hospitals strain under virus surge

New York has announced three more cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, bringing to eight the number of state cases linked to the new variant.

4 years ago

(Jeff Rhode/ Holy Name Medical Center.)
Health
6abc

1st case of omicron variant detected in New Jersey

The individual, an adult female, who is a fully vaccinated Georgia resident, had recently traveled to South Africa before spending time in New Jersey.

4 years ago

Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and City Hall in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.
Health

First case of COVID-19’s omicron variant is reported in Philadelphia

A 30-year-old man has tested positive for the new variant, the city Health Department announced Friday.

4 years ago

Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania could become destination for abortions if Roe is overturned

At least 23 states have laws on the books that would likely ban abortions if the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, including Ohio and West Virginia.

4 years ago

A mobile COVID-19 vaccination and booster shot site operates out of a bus on 59th Street south of Central Park as patients wait on the sidewalk, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Health

Multiple cases of omicron virus variant detected in New York City

The news came a day after the U.S. announced its first case of the variant had been detected in California.

4 years ago

Cooper University Hospital in Camden
Health

Increase in COVID hospitalizations has Camden County officials concerned

Camden County officials are working to stop the spread of both COVID and the flu.

4 years ago

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