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‘More harm than good’: Most Pa. prisoners are vaxxed, but isolating COVID rules remain

The Department of Corrections reports 77% of the people incarcerated in state prisons are fully vaccinated, but only 22% of corrections staff
By Katie Meyer/WHYY

Should masking last beyond the pandemic? Flu and colds are down, spurring a debate

A study released this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, led by researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, found that across 44 children’s hospitals, the number of pediatric patients hospitalized for respiratory illnesses is down 62%.

By NPR

I got the COVID-19 vaccine. What’s safe for me to do now, and what isn’t?

After a year of physical distancing and mask-wearing, many of us are itching to get back to normal.
By Zoë Read/WHYY and Hannah Chinn/WHYY

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Mask-wearing, social distancing improve, but too slowly, survey shows

Americans are being more careful to avoid catching and spreading the coronavirus but are still not being careful enough to slow the pandemic, especially with worrisome, apparently more contagious new variants looming.
By NPR

Social distancing plummeted in lead up to fall surge, survey finds

Researchers at Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern universities have been surveying about 20,000 U.S. adults nationwide about the pandemic, every month since April.

By NPR

What is up with young adults in Philly not taking coronavirus seriously? Here’s what they said

“I’m ready to treat everything like it’s back to normal."
By Ximena Conde/WHYY


Who’s having this tense coronavirus conversation: ‘You’re going where? Not me.’

“We had to change plans a lot because of it.”
By Hannah Chinn/WHYY


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