Public Health

Testing more people is important, but a negative result does not necessarily mean someone is in the clear.

As idled businesses begin to restart across the state, child care providers in ‘yellow’ counties say they are reopening slowly, if at all.

The speed and scale of the economic crash have drawn comparisons to the Great Depression. But experts say this downturn should be shorter.

SEPTA riders can expect most bus and trolley lines to return to normal schedules, plus the Market-Frankford, Broad Street and Norristown High Speed Lines.

Masks are designed to prevent the wearer from possibly spreading the virus to others or being exposed themselves.

Experts say it could take several weeks to see enough testing data to know how lifting restrictions is affecting the spread of COVID-19.

The U.S. was deeply divided before the coronavirus. Now, researchers worry that the pandemic is worsening what they call a dangerously polarized climate.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, less common symptoms are being reported including loss of smell, vomiting and diarrhea, and increasingly, a variety of skin problems.

Republicans say they're moving ahead with plans to gather tens of thousands at their convention in North Carolina this summer – even as Democrats weigh their options.

In separate stark warnings, two major world leaders bluntly told their citizens that they need to adapt to living with COVID-19 and cannot wait to be saved by a vaccine.

This spring, congregations are reimagining how to celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

His remarks were surprisingly political and touched on current events beyond the virus and its social and economic impacts.

They are often hundreds — even thousands — of people short of targets for their contact tracing programs.

More than 9,000 doses of the experimental drug are slated for distribution to hospitals across the state to treat COVID-19 infections.

Many students are obligated to pay rent under leases that run until August, even as many have lost their jobs and most aren’t eligible to receive the government stimulus aid.