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Public Health

The Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg. (Kalim A. Bhatti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. House Democrats say they were in the dark for a week about Republican’s positive coronavirus test

State Rep. Andrew Lewis (R., Dauphin) said in a statement that he tested positive for COVID-19 last week and immediately began self-isolation.

6 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Biden says Wolf’s reopening plan for Pa. is a model for the nation

Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, received Wolf’s official endorsement on Wednesday and joined the governor for a virtual campaign event.

6 years ago

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks past a shuttered business in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health

Coronavirus update: Gov. Wolf announces guidance for reopening businesses 

Gov. Tom Wolf announced Wednesday details of his economic reopening plan for counties in the green and yellow phases.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Jerry Jordan. (Greg Windle)
Education
The Notebook

City teachers wary of opening schools without contact tracing and a vaccine

More than 6,000 teachers participated in PFT survey. They worry that it will be nearly impossible to enforce social distancing or teach with masks on.

6 years ago

(Mark Henninger / Imagic Digital)
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

Megabus restarts Philly service amid confusion over roadwork behind 30th Street Station

You can get tickets to D.C. now and NYC next week — and the bus will pick you up in the regular spot, officials say.

6 years ago

Willie Johnson, right, a resident of senior housing, gets tested for COVID-19 in Paterson, N.J., Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. military, overseas ballots delayed; testing hits 20,000 goal

Software issues have delayed the mailing of military and overseas ballots for the July 7 primary.

6 years ago

Delaware State Representatives met for the first time in history via a virtual session on Tuesday. (courtesy House Democratic Caucus)
Health

Coronavirus update: State lawmakers launch virtual session

State Reps voted 39-2 to approve holding their legislative session virtually. The Senate is expected to follow suit today.

6 years ago

Open fire hydrant during heatwave in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

A deadly hot summer is coming. Philly doesn’t yet have a plan.

The communities hit hardest by the coronavirus are also the most at risk during the extreme heat expected to come this summer, epidemiologists say.

6 years ago

Protesters demonstrate at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, April 20, 2020, demanding that Gov. Tom Wolf reopen Pennsylvania's economy even as new social-distancing mandates took effect at stores and other commercial buildings. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Health

Protests, masks and public health: where do my rights end and yours begin?

A medical ethicist asks if anti-lockdown protesters "have a moral duty to forgo medical care in favor of those who follow the rules?"

Air Date: May 27, 2020 10:00 am

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President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping
NPR
Health

In the battle against COVID-19, a risk of ‘vaccine nationalism’

The race to defeat the coronavirus is generating competition among nations and multinational companies that's being described as "vaccine nationalism."

6 years ago

Memorial Day weekend at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island, N.Y.
NPR
Health

Nearing 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, U.S. is still ‘early in this outbreak’

"The speed with which this has happened is really devastating," says Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

6 years ago

Dr. Ala Stanford administers a COVID-19 swab test on Wade Jeffries in the parking lot of Pinn Memorial Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Stanford and other doctors formed the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to offer testing and help address heath disparities in the African American community. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health
Broke in Philly

North Philly’s Stanton community health center now offers COVID-19 testing

“This is a testament to our drive to get more testing in underserved communities,” Mayor Jim Kenney said at Tuesday’s opening.

6 years ago

The correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia.
Courts & Law

Pa. advocates: Emergency efforts to release people from state prisons moving too slowly

Pa. state prisons have released 153 people through a program to prevent the spread of COVID-19 — a total even prison officials say is lower than expected.

6 years ago

With physician offices not seeing patients with COVID-19 symptoms in April, Timothy Regan said he had little choice when Denver Health directed him first to its urgent care facility and then to its emergency room.
NPR
Health

ER visit for a COVID-like cough stuck man with a $3,278 bill

From late March into April, Timothy Regan had severe coughing fits several times a day that often left him out of breath. He had a periodic low-grade fever too.

6 years ago

A voter registration volunteer in Philadelphia in 2018. New registrations had surged going into 2020 but have dropped off dramatically as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. (Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Pandemic puts a crimp on voter registration, potentially altering electorate

Most places where Americans usually register to vote have been closed since March. It's led to a big drop in registrations right before an election expecting high turnout.

6 years ago

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