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June 18, 2021 | 7:53 AM

‘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

March 31, 2021 | 5:47 AM

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 Blake Farmer/WPLN

March 15, 2021 | 7:41 AM

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 Zöe Read, Hannah Chinn/WHYY

January 15, 2021 | 7:51 AM

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 Rob Stein/NPR

December 2, 2020 | 1:25 PM

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 Rob Stein/NPR