Coronavirus Pandemic

A Penn study shows pandemic-era telehealth eliminated inequity in the rate of Black patients making it to primary care appointments after hospitalization.

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis requires strong partnerships across every level of society, write Sen. Tim Kearney, Dr. Monica Taylor, and Dr. Azmat Husain.

The district says cloth masks are no longer considered effective, and will be distributing KN95s to school staff.

The day the Pennsylvania Homeowners Assistance Fund application portal opened, it crashed, inundated with people trying to register.

The top reason for hybrid or remote work was, unsurprisingly, COVID-19 itself. The second most given reason was attracting and retaining employees.

Citing recent data from the CDC, officials in the Garden State will use all of their outreach strategies to promote boosters.

The city’s health commissioner said vaccinating children under 5 will help slow the spread, and the city will be ready when federal regulators give the green light.

The move could open the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots by early March.

The weekly average of new daily cases has plummeted by 74% since Delaware’s indoor mask mandate went into effect. Hospitalizations are down by half.

90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago — amounting to more than in all of 2020.

The FDA is pushing the company to submit its application based on the two-dose data for potential approval in February.

The temporary sites, one of which will be located in Philadelphia, will allow hospitals to more rapidly discharge patients in need of long-term care.

Coronavirus cases are dropping, but Delaware hospitals are still operating under crisis standards of care. “COVID is still deadly,” one nurse manager stressed.

Full approval means FDA has completed the same rigorous, time-consuming review for Moderna’s shot as dozens of other long-established vaccines.

Omicron's race across the globe has amped up concerns about long COVID, which some estimates suggest affects a third of COVID-19 survivors.