
Public Health
Coronavirus update: First Philadelphia city employee dies from coronavirus
A lieutenant with the Philadelphia Police Department died over the weekend from the coronavirus. According to the city, he is the first city employee to die from COVID-19.
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Delaware Sec. of DHSS talks about the COVID situation, an update on Philly and New Jersey's attempts to stop the spread, and how to do a "social distancing" Passover.
Air Date: April 6, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:30Meet the key officials leading Philly’s pandemic response
Who’s running the show on health, schools, operations and transit.
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Never home alone: How parents are managing kids’ enforced togetherness
Even a roomy house can seem crowded these days, as parents and children spend every minute together. Lots of potential for sibling squabbles.
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How the coronavirus put me face-to-face with familial privilege
Howard University student Joycelin Farmer wrestled with gratitude and guilt after being evicted from campus and returning to a wonderful home life.
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COVID-19 brings ‘cataclysmic changes’ for people giving birth in Philadelphia area
With the pandemic, more are interested in home births, some ask for induced labor, and some are coming from New York to see about having babies here.
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"This portal will help facilitate the connections businesses need to get critical COVID-19-related products to market or retrofit their operations."
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Coronavirus update: Trump declares ‘major disaster’ in Del.; Feds give N.J. 500 more ventilators
New Jersey has now been granted half of the 2,500 ventilators Gov. Phil Murphy has asked of the federal government.
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Spreading the Philly love: 1,000 cheesesteaks donated to hospital workers around the region
Pat’s is sending sandwiches to medical staff in Philadelphia, Baltimore and NYC.
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How the Municipal Services Building became Philly’s most polarizing government tower
The Brutalist structure was once considered revolutionary.
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Can air pollution make coronavirus worse? Scientists say yes — possibly in both cases and severity
A few years ago, Karen Clay and two other scientists studied the death rates for the 1918 flu pandemic in the U.S.
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Business groups, state and federal programs try to help N.J’s small businesses stay afloat
The question is whether loans, grants, tax credits and expanded unemployment benefits will be able to fully meet the growing demand for help
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Setting the record straight in another week of Trump and coronavirus
Easter is next Sunday, April 12. But the country isn’t close to being “opened up” by then, as President Trump said he’d like to see during a March 24 press conference.
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Counting toilet paper squares, composting: This how we deal with pandemic-era trash
Stay-at-home rules raise lots of new questions: How to manage all those delivery bags? Dispose of sanitizing spray and paper goods, or reuse them?
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Listen 1:20Tenants fear eviction. Landlords fear bankruptcy. How can Philly balance the two?
Tenants' rights groups want to extend a moratorium on evictions, but landlords say they're feeling the financial burden too.
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