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Pennsylvania

PlanPhilly
Health

Visualizing the curve: Philly leads Pa. in new COVID cases

Three data visualizations show how the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is growing in Pa. as Philly sees a surge.

6 years ago

Pedestrians in protective face mask walk past a closed business in Philadelphia, Friday, March 20, 2020. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health

Gov. Wolf updates list of ‘life sustaining’ businesses; Montco asks for mask donations

The masks being sought by Montgomery County would go toward first responders and hospitals as needed.

6 years ago

In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 photo, pipes lay along a construction site on the Mariner East pipeline in a residential neighborhood in Exton, Pa. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Wolf’s coronavirus shutdown order appears to include Mariner East pipeline construction

Construction on the Mariner East pipeline appears to be halted by Gov. Wolf’s new order that shuts down all “non-life-sustaining” operations and businesses.

6 years ago

(Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania police cut services, plan for shortages as coronavirus spreads

“It's not like you can go out and arrest a bad guy and stop a problem. That's not going to stop this,” the police chief in Scranton said.

6 years ago

Clinical staff workers conduct a drive-through COVID-19 test Wednesday, March 18, 2020, at Allegheny Health Network's Wexford Health + Wellness Pavilion in Wexford, Pa. (Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP Photo)
Health

Wolf orders ‘non-life sustaining businesses’ to shut down; Philly closes playgrounds

20 of those infected in the city are health care workers. So when the first public testing site opens, priority will go to health workers with symptoms.

6 years ago

Philly native and 'Prepper Broadcast Network' host James Walton; a local prepper's recent grocery haul COURTESY JAMES WALTON AND SHEENA HAUSER
Community
Billy Penn

Stockpiling for the lockdown? Philly-area preppers were already ready

“Everybody takes advice from us when things like this happen.”

6 years ago

Jordan Bugg stands outside a shed at his mothers home, where he lives, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania. Jordan suffered from a tooth abscess in the Lebanon County jail, which he says was ignored by medical staff until he ended up on life support. (Joseph Darius Jaafari/PA Post)
Courts & Law
PA Post

He went into jail with a toothache. He ended up on life support — and in debt.

Federal law requires that prisoners receive the same standard of care as those on the outside, including for oral health needs.

6 years ago

Sarah Anne Hughes (Spotlight PA)
Community
Spotlight PA

Funeral directors in Pennsylvania brace for grief as coronavirus limits services, viewings

In an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, funeral directors across Pennsylvania are being urged to postpone funerals and cancel public viewings.

6 years ago

Poll worker Dina Sebold waits for voters at Cecelia Snyder Middle School in Bensalem during a special election for a vacant seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Hand sanitizer and wipes were made available to voters, many of whom brought their own pens. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Bucks special election: Results have not been certified, but GOP claims victory

Sanitizer-toting candidates weren’t the only signs of an atypical special election day in Pennsylvania’s 18th House district.

6 years ago

Al Madinah Learning Center in South Philadelphia is closed amid coronavirus shutdowns. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

After mixed messages, Pa. and Philly agree to shutter day care centers for coronavirus

Parents and day care providers in Philadelphia described receiving mixed messages Monday on whether day care providers could remain open during the shutdown.

6 years ago

In this Nov. 14, 2017 photo, a Telmate tablet that allows inmates to surf the Internet, play games, and video chat with friends and family is displayed at the Bonneville County Jail in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)
Courts & Law

Pa. state prison system turning to video chats to keep people connected during pandemic

For the first time ever, Pennsylvania residents will be able to video chat with loved ones who are serving state prison sentences.

6 years ago

Brandyn Muller Campbell with her daughter, Riley (left) and son, Matthew.  (Tammy Bradshaw Photography)
The Why
Health

Coping during coronavirus

Life looks a lot different now than it did just a week ago. How are people in the Philadelphia area living and preparing?

Air Date: March 17, 2020

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Friends’ Central School teacher and mother of two, Tiffany Borsch, creates routine at home amid school closures with daily chalkboard schedule. (Photo courtesy of Tiffany Borsch)
Education

How three Pennsylvania teachers tackle remote learning in the time of coronavirus

Three Pennsylvania teachers practice community care, gratitude and mindfulness in the wake of coronavirus-related school closures.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania legislature will vote remotely as coronavirus spreads

The Pennsylvania House passed temporary rules Monday allowing members to vote remotely, essentially putting the 203-member body on an indefinite work-from-home policy.

6 years ago

(AP file photo)
Community

Pennsylvania’s state-owned wine, liquor stores to close

Pennsylvania will shut down all of its roughly 600 state-owned wine and liquor stores as part of the state's expanding shutdown to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

6 years ago

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