Public Health

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Agencies based in Dauphin County should also process Right-to-Know requests as they normally would, an independent office says.

Scientists are racing to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, but a Philly expert says it takes years to do safely and outlines the risks of rushing the process.

"If that rule had gone into effect, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan," said former OSHA head David Michaels.

This feature is confounding doctors’ understanding of what was once considered mainly a respiratory infection. It's also raising questions about prevention and treatment.

Carney’s rolling reopening will also no longer require out-of-staters to self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering Delaware.

Officials at Philadelphia International Airport had initially planned Friday to remove the between 50 and 100 homeless people.

Also Tuesday, Rutgers announced it will make the SAT and ACT optional for 2021 applicants, and officials said childhood vaccinations have plummeted.

It took Philadelphia police officers about an hour Monday night to disperse a crowd of about 250 young people partying on Philly streets despite a stay-at-home order.