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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
Community

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Murphy limits capacity for indoor gatherings

New rules restrict Indoor groups to 25% of a room’s capacity, or 25 people, down from 100. Excluded: weddings, funerals, memorials, religious services.

6 years ago

NPR
Health

WHO chief warns ‘there might never be’ a silver bullet for coronavirus

Despite progress made on a COVID-19 vaccine, "there's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," the World Health Organization's director-general warned.

6 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Health

Delaware establishes new program to retrain workers laid off during the pandemic

Delaware will use $10 million in CARES Act funding to provide job training and employment resources to those laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 years ago

Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Audrey McAvoy/AP Photo)
Health
Billy Penn

Which Philly coronavirus test sites get results the fastest? Here’s what they said

Long delays make it harder to contain pandemic spread — so the city is buying new machines to process samples locally.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson
Health
NBC10

Eagles coach Doug Pederson tests positive for COVID-19

Pederson, 52, is the second NFL head coach to test positive for the novel coronavirus.

6 years ago

Imperial County in California is rural but has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Deborah Birx warned the pandemic is in a
NPR
Health

Birx warns U.S. coronavirus epidemic is in ‘new phase’ as cases and deaths climb

The U.S. has surpassed more than 4.6 million confirmed cases of the virus and 154,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

6 years ago

Students, wearing face masks and paying attention to social distancing, study at Les Magnolias primary school during the partial lifting of coronavirus, COVID-19, lockdown regulations in Brussels, Monday, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Health

MIS-C: Doctors make progress on COVID-related illness affecting kids

While doctors say they have more information on how to treat MIS-C, it's still a mystery why some children get it and others don't.

6 years ago

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Terri Donelson, left, and her husband, Stephen, walk up their driveway to see friends and family awaiting him at his home in Midlothian, Texas on Friday, June 19, 2020, after his 90-day stay in the Zale Hospital on the UT Southwestern Campus. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Health

Early in pandemic, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans

Doctors who faced the first coronavirus onslaught reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to save lives in the dark.

6 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., gives Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., an elbow bump as Schumer leaves following a meeting at the Capitol with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on a COVID-19 relief bill, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Politics & Policy

Negotiators report progress in COVID-19 aid talks

“This was the longest meeting we had and it was more productive than the other meetings,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

6 years ago

The second patient in a first-stage study of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 receives a shot in in March at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

Public health expert calls to repair distrust in a COVID-19 vaccine

Officials say a promising coronavirus vaccine is on its way in 2021. But does that matter if only half of Americans say they're willing to get such a vaccination?

6 years ago

See-through face mask
Community

Frustration and misunderstanding: For deaf folks, masking can cause communication barriers

Widespread mask usage curbs the transmission of coronavirus. But it can also hide faces, muffle sound, and derail communication for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

6 years ago

Delaware health officials have ramped up testing at the Delaware beaches. (Courtesy of Delaware National Guard)
Health

Delaware panel calls for ‘culture of compliance’ to handle COVID-19 resurgence

Delaware’s fight against an expected resurgence of the coronavirus this fall needs to be a cooperative effort, a state panel told Gov. John Carney Friday.

6 years ago

Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, holds a model of the coronavirus as he testifies at a US Senate hearing to review Operation Warp Speed: the researching, manufacturing, and distributing of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine, in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2020. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Science

U.S. reaches $2.1 billion deal with Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline for COVID-19 vaccine push

This is the sixth vaccine candidate to join Operation Warp Speed's portfolio, and the largest vaccine deal to date.

6 years ago

12th Annual Beer Summit takes place by Zoom. (Courtesy of Rev. David Brown)
Community

The protests and the pandemic: Philly’s 12th annual Beer Summit tackles a country in crisis

Rev. David Brown, who moderated the 12th annual Beer Summit, reflects on the conversation that occurred hours after Congressman John Lewis was laid to rest.

6 years ago

The new Charles Library on Temple University's main campus in North Philadelphia. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Community
Billy Penn

Temple’s plan for on-campus learning puts North Philly neighbors at risk

Hygiene theater might make classrooms safer, but what about the community?

6 years ago

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