Coronavirus Pandemic

Most of the $912 million being directed by the bill is federal aid approved by Congress in last month's coronavirus recovery package.

The new plan calls for pre-K through grade 2 students to return on Feb. 22. But there are signs that the city’s teachers union will oppose.

With input from the union, the institution is trying to balance community needs and safety concerns.

After five months of in-person instruction in more than 100 private schools in Philadelphia, health officials report nine outbreaks of COVID-19.

Pennsylvania Democrats are breaking rank to publicly express misgivings about the Wolf administration’s efforts to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.

An analysis shows that more than 300 senior care homes did not have a scheduled vaccine clinic as of Jan. 17, while hundreds more weren’t covered by a federal partnership.

The move comes after receiving the results of court-ordered COVID-19 testing of all incarcerated people and staff in Philly’s four jails.

Some problems stem from a lag between when the first pandemic stimulus funds expired and the time it took to get the second relief package up and running.

The administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses each from both Moderna and from Pfizer, which has a vaccine with its German counterpart BioNTech.

Penn, Temple and Einstein are pivoting from Phase 1A, when they vaccinated their patient-facing staff, to Phase 1B, their most at-risk patients.

After PFC turned away people seeking vaccinations that day, friends of CEO Andrei Doroshin say they saw a Snapchat photo of him appearing to administer vaccine off-site.

During most of the time the group collected names on its COVIDReadi site, it did so without terms and conditions or a privacy policy.

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

The Health Department says it’s planning a new mass vaccination clinic.

New Castle County will become the newest National Health Corps site with AmeriCorps volunteers working to respond to COVID-19 and address inequities in health care.