pandemic

HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration, in coordination with the COVID-19 Vaccine Joint Task Force, announced that mitigation orders except masking will...

PARENTAL PEACE: While parenting can be a joy, any parent knows that there are days they would pay good money to get a break. A recent study, conducted...

Fixing the coronavirus pandemic might start with a covid-19 vaccine, but the shot isn’t a light switch that turns back the dark with a flick. By the s...

So are we having a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. or not? University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm has forecast a COVID “Category...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College President Daniel T. DeMarte has announced the college’s intention to resume in-person operations fo...

Back in September, I wrote about how in the midst of the pandemic, there was a lot of good news that wasn’t getting much coverage. At the time, the po...

One million. It is the kind of number that we think we can understand because it is thrown about with such abandon. The price of a big house. A mere s...

So here we are, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s go over some of the things we’ve learned. “Avoid it like the plague” is no longer a useful ...

The U.S. is set to recover from the pandemic-induced recession faster than other rich countries thanks to its successful vaccination effort and copiou...

Several weeks ago, when national surveys suggested that a sizable portion of the U.S. population had no intention of getting vaccinated against COVID-...

A year ago, many things in the world paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the need for blood never stopped. Today blood donations are just as esse...

The coronavirus pandemic has been a yearlong war. There have been front lines and battle plans, equipment deployed and troops activated. There have be...

Can the federal government ban evictions? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. But the answer touches on a deeper one, as yet unsettled: Will...

STATE COLLEGE — The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives every single day for a year, and those disruptions have made fear, uncertainty, and fati...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo quickly emerged as one of the nation’s heroes. Pitching himself as the antithesis to the ...

There are more than 700 nursing homes in Pennsylvania. More than 88,000 people, mostly older individuals, live there — whether for the long term or a ...

Throughout the pandemic, the press has been excoriatingly harsh on a governor who was slow to act, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the elderly, ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — At the end of 2020, more than 12% of Pennsylvania households were experiencing hunger — the highest rate since the onset of the COVI...

The Community Blood Bank is urging donors to give blood during this critical time of need. A blood drive is set for noon to 5 p.m. Monday at St. Berna...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s myriad effects on society and the economy have accelerated Pennsylvania’s other tragic public health emergency — deadly opioid...