COVID-19
Passyunk: Director of Business Improvement District on Helping Local Retailers Weather Pandemic
Adam Leiter answers questions on how the East Passyunk Avenue has handled COVID-19. [continue reading…]
Health
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COVID-19: Physical Therapists and Patients Adjust to Telehealth
Physical therapists have been seeing more clients virtually. It has been an adjustment for both therapists and their clients. [continue reading…]
COVID-19
COVID-19: Families, Health Officials Prepare for a Different Kind of Trick-or-Treating this Halloween
As Halloween approaches, government officials, health professionals, parents, and kids are all preparing for the ways trick-or-treating will be different this year. “If COVID doesn’t get better, I’ll be watching a movie with my family,” [continue reading…]
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COVID-19: Yoga Practice Offers Stress Relief Despite Pandemic
A new yoga teacher, Kristina Murray, was excited to start her career when the coronavirus shut everything down. She has since taken on new classes, trying to reach students wherever they are. [continue reading…]
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COVID-19: Pregnancy, Labor, and Delivery During a Global Pandemic
Two women discuss navigating pregnancy and motherhood while abiding by new hospital policies and social distancing. [continue reading…]
Center City
COVID-19: Director of 1918 Influenza Exhibit Talks Coronavirus
A conversation with Robert D. Hicks, who led the development of the Mütter Museum’s Spit Spreads Death exhibit, about how the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic compares to COVID-19, and what we can learn from the past. [continue reading…]
Business
COVID-19: Tattoo Parlors Persist Because of Customers
Used to dealing with the possible spread of infection, several tattoo parlors in the region have instituted new policies and practices in order to stay open. [continue reading…]
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COVID-19: Data Shows Coronavirus Hit Philadelphia’s Browner, Poorer Neighborhoods Hardest
PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com compared COVID-19 case, hospitalization and death data from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to demographic data from the Census Bureau to see exactly who and where the coronavirus has hit hardest. [continue reading…]
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COVID-19: Rural PA County Not Hit Hard, But Officials and Nonprofits Adjust and Prepare
Our special reporting on COVID-19 may focus on communities outside Philadelphia as many of our student journalists are no longer in the city. Instead, our reporters will cover how the coronavirus is impacting the their [continue reading…]
Cedar Park
Cedar Park: Folk Herbalist Helps Black and Brown Communities
Folk herbalist and energy worker Desiree Thompson offers black and brown communities an opportunity at unconventional methods of healing. Clients go to Thompson’s shop, Nana Catherine’s Apothecary, for the array of services she can offer them that they otherwise not be able to get anywhere else in the city of Philadelphia. [continue reading…]