coronavirus in pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is setting up four regional support sites with as many as 120 beds to help hospitals and nursing homes under strain from COVID-19.

Pennsylvania has deployed its first pandemic “strike team” of out-of-state health care workers to a suburban Philadelphia hospital under severe strain from COVID-19.

Gov. Tom Wolf is brushing aside questions about whether he’ll issue more orders for shutdowns as cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 spread quickly and fill Pennsylvania’s hospitals with unvaccinated patients.

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At least one food court vendor has announced that it is pulling out of the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show citing concerns about the health of farmers and volunteers amid a rise in COVID-19 infection rates.

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate is advancing legislation to prevent school children from being required to get a COVID-19 vaccination to attend school, although it likely faces a veto by Gov. Tom Wolf.

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Alison Beam, Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary, will depart at the end of December. Keara Klinepeter, the Health Department’s executive deputy secretary, will take over as acting secretary.

NBC10’s Brian Sheehan reports on Bensalem and a handful of other Bucks County school districts ditching mask mandates for students.

A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary is defending the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-12 schools to fight COVID-19

With Christmas just over two week away, concern is growing due to the recent spike in coronavirus-related hospitalizations in Pennsylvania. The Keystone state and five other states make up about half of the nationwide COVID-related hospitalizations. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports.

Gov. Tom Wolf suggested Tuesday that he is not considering additional containment measures as the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads overseas, but continued to urge Pennsylvanians to get vaccinated.

As long as there are people unprotected from the coronavirus, we are going to see variants like the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, says NBC medical correspondent Dr. John Torres.

The ongoing debate over a mask mandate in Pennsylvania schools continued in a state court this week. NBC10 reporter Deanna Durante explains how things are playing out.

Employees in Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration are being offered five days of paid leave for getting fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year.

A new CDC study found that vaccines offer more protection from COVID-19 than antibodies from a previous infection. Researchers found that adults who had recently recovered from COVID-19 but remained unvaccinated were more than 5 times more likely to catch the coronavirus than adults who were vaccinated and had never had COVID-19.

New data shows the total enrollment at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities has declined to the lowest level in decades. The state system universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock, and West Chester.

The Pennsylvania House is giving its approval to a bill that would make more data about COVID-19 and other diseases available to the public.

Pennsylvania is mailing letters to 375,000 holders of commercial driver’s licenses in a recruitment campaign meant to address a shortage of school bus drivers.

Schools across the nation are facing driver shortages, and many Pennsylvania districts are impacted. State leaders are trying to alleviate the issue.