Coronavirus Pandemic

As colleges and universities across the country have been forced to pivot to a virtual, deep inequities of opportunity can leave students falling through the cracks.

N.J. and Pa. farmers are bracing themselves as business drops and commodity prices fall while the COVID-19 pandemic rages. They see little help on the way.

If you’re stuck at home and feeling lonely, it’s more than heartache you need to be worried about. Loneliness could contribute to a poor immune response.

SEPTA is racing against the pandemic’s spread, continuing to adapt to heightened risks and a reduced workforce that is calling for more protections.

COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate when it infects. But some 'racialized patterns’ emerge as the pandemic widens.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania may put a field hospital on a public street, the first commandeering of open land for medical use since 1918.

The White House Coronavirus Task Force gives an update on the nation’s current COVID-19 situation as the number of reported cases of the virus in the U.S. grows.

Intended to protect the physical health of young patients at behavioral facilities, the guidelines can exact a toll on their mental health, too.

In one of the quickest meetings in Philadelphia City Council history, members approved $85.4 million in emergency funding to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the past two weeks.

The latest update to the state of emergency orders businesses to take more steps to enforce social distancing at the workplace.

A guide to the landscape of loans, grants and other funding options.

We talk about the challenges of working from home during the pandemic -- how to balance work and family, how to stay focused, and the dos and don'ts of videoconferencing.

The number of new people claiming unemployment benefits totaled a staggering 6.648 million last week — doubling the record set a week earlier

April Hall, a busy magazine editor, has added “homeschool teacher” to her workload. The results have been mixed.