Public Health

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Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC is asking a Chester County judge to put a pause on Tower Health’s closure of Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals.

If City Council passes the bill and it becomes law, the Philadelphia Beverage Tax would disappear on July 1, the first day of the city’s next fiscal year.

The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.

The funding is aimed to help keep burned-out health care workers on board during a staffing crisis.

One lawsuit out of Montgomery County says axing mask policies forces parents of medically fragile school children to pull their children out of in-person learning.

The company announced Wednesday that the first participant had received a dose. Earlier this week, competitor Pfizer began a similar study of its own reformulated shots.

COVID-19 numbers are down 75% from two weeks ago, suggesting the winter surge has peaked. But the pandemic is not over, officials warn.

The roughly 7 million Americans who are immunocompromised — including many people with disabilities — live with a much higher risk of COVID, and near-constant vigilance.

With the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center City location often 90% full, the new hospital in Montco is expected to add capacity as demand for beds increases.

Some retailers are starting to get the first wave of the 400 million free masks being distributed by the federal government. Every person is allowed to receive up to three.

Cases, hospitalizations, and positivity rates have fallen precipitously over the last two weeks, but still are well above last January’s previous peak.

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.

Measurements at age 1 showed faster brain activity in key regions in infants whose families received $300-plus each month. That's compared to infants in families who got $20.

City officials said they do not expect the situation to require anyone to take over the mayor’s duties.