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Public Health

A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Health

FDA advisory panel rejects widespread Pfizer booster shots

The vote Friday, 16-2, was a blow to the Biden administration’s effort to shore up people’s protection against the virus amid the highly contagious delta variant.

4 years ago

Philadelphia supervised injection site
Courts & Law

Supreme Court urged to review ban on drug injection sites, with Philly case as focus

The test case centers on a nonprofit group's Safehouse project in Philadelphia, but officials in other states are watching closely as they debate similar programs.

4 years ago

White flags stand near the Washington Monument on Tuesday. The flags, which will number more than 630,000 when the temporary art installation on the National Mall is completed, are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's In America: Remember, honoring Americans who have died of COVID-19. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
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Health

More than 600,000 white flags on the National mall honor lives lost to COVID

Each of the flags, displayed across the 20 acres of grass, will hold a written personalized message from loved ones honoring their memory.

4 years ago

Pat Loughney (right) cared for his wife, Candy, in their home until she went into anaphylactic shock after eating medicated soap. Candy is one of 280,000 Pennsylvanians over the age of 64 living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. (Quinn Glabicki for Spotlight PA / Publicsource)
Health
Spotlight PA

Pa.’s looming dementia care crisis, by the numbers

Pennsylvania is headed for a profound eldercare crisis, experts warn.

4 years ago

Members of the Esperanza Academy Dance Ensemble will appear at the Kimmel Center’s Arts Launch 2021 festival, performing traditional Puerto Rican dance with modern interpretations
Arts & Entertainment

Kimmel Center invites new friends to its reopening party

After 18 months of being closed to audiences, the Kimmel Center invites arts groups from across Philadelphia to its free Arts Launch festival.

4 years ago

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Spaced out desks are pictured through a fence
Education

Shutdowns, testing, quarantines have become a maze for Philadelphia parents to navigate

Southwark is the fifth school to temporarily close.

4 years ago

Pa. Governor Tom Wolf visits the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, which he calls ground zero of the opioid crisis. (Tom MacDonald / WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Wolf calls drug issue in Philly ‘sad and depressing’ after tour of Kensington

Governor Tom Wolf said more needs to be done after touring Kensington and seeing firsthand the impact opioid use can take on a neighborhood.

4 years ago

Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy with a more than $10 billion plan to settle claims that it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic by illegally pushing sales of its addictive OxyContin painkiller. The company's headquarters in Stamford, Conn., is shown here in 2019. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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Courts & Law

The Justice Department moves to block the Purdue Pharma Sackler bankruptcy deal

A division of the Justice Department that serves as a watchdog over the federal bankruptcy system filed an appeal late Wednesday.

4 years ago

In two weeks, Philadelphia has seen four of its schools shut down due to COVID outbreak. (Di’Amond Moore/Detroit Free Press via Chalkbeat Philadelphia)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Another Philadelphia school temporarily shut due to COVID cases

In the two weeks since schools opened, Richmond Elementary School is the second district school and the fourth school in the city to shut down over an outbreak.

4 years ago

Activists hung caution tape around City Hall in Philadelphia on March 26, 2021, to bring the crime scenes they witness in their neighborhoods to city officials’ work place. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Some long-awaited relief: Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic, still at historic levels, eases up a bit

Over the past month, the number of shooting victims citywide has dropped 11%, officials said. Operation PinPoint zones saw a more dramatic decrease.

4 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia School District students at Samuel Powel Elementary School and Science Leadership Academy Middle School returned to in-person learning on Aug. 31, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Philly COVID-19 cases trend downward as city debuts new breakthrough case dataset

As of Tuesday, the city is averaging 250 new cases per day, down from a recent high of 313 per day, the acting health commissioner says.

4 years ago

Julian Aldridge wears a face mask while sitting at a desk behind a see-through partition
Health

N.J. coronavirus update: Judge denies request to block school mask mandate; Trenton vaccine mandate for city workers

A federal judge is not going to stop the Garden State’s mask mandate for schools, at least for now. But the lawsuit against Gov. Phil Murphy’s order will move forward.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Gov. Wolf’s coronavirus business waiver program was flawed, secretive, Pa. auditor says

“This audit revealed a flawed process that provided inconsistent answers to business owners and caused confusion,” said DeFoor, a Republican elected to office last year.

4 years ago

A sign advises shoppers to wear masks outside of a store
Health

Relaxed COVID measures may be causing an unseasonal surge in another virus

Typically, doctors see no cases of respiratory syncytial virus, common in children, at this time of year. But cases are rising in the U.S. now.

4 years ago

Listen 1:40
A clinician draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (FEMA)
Health
Billy Penn

Philly releases breakthrough data: Vaccines reduced COVID deaths, despite rising case and hospitalization counts

Vaccination is still highly effective, health officials say.

4 years ago

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