Health Care

The Chester County Health Department has asked schools to stop contact tracing and to focus on checking students for symptoms, testing them, and sending them home.

City health officials announced earlier this year they had given out more than 260,000 booster doses since August. This is how the numbers break down.

All those new positive cases means a shift in priorities, as CDC guidelines also have shifted.

The new strike teams are part of a larger, state-directed effort to temporarily bolster capacity at short-staffed hospitals in Pennsylvania.

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Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments.

A health communications expert has developed a free online course to help people talk to those who are vaccine hesitant — and to fight misinformation with empathy.

The aim is to make it easier for those having mental health issues to access intervention services and, ideally, avoid interactions with police.

Thousands of anti-abortion protesters marched in the nation’s capital with a growing sense of optimism about the prospects this year of a sweeping rollback of abortion rights.

The phone number — 1-800-232-0233 — follows the launch earlier this week of a federal website to order the tests.

The order means health care workers who are unvaccinated will have until Jan. 27 to get their first shot and until Feb. 28 for the second.

Decades ago, Mexican activists drove women into the United States to terminate their pregnancies at clinics.

"The protections offered by surgical and/or isolation masks outweigh those provided by cloth masking," said Main Line Health.

The website appears not to recognize some residences within multi-unit buildings as individual households.