February 27, 2021
The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 27, there were 3,361 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 929,697. There are 1,897 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of that number, 403 patients...
February 26, 2021
February 26, 2021
PHILADELPHIA − February 26, 2021 – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday joined Mayor Jim Kenney, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, Senator Sharif Street, Senator Art Haywood and other state and local leaders to demand action to reduce...
February 26, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today announced that Pennsylvanians can now use COVID Alert PA to access important COVID-19 vaccine information through an updated version of the app. “More than 792,000 Pennsylvanians who have downloaded...
February 26, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 26, there were 3,346 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 926,336. There are 1,962 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 26, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today announced beginning Monday, March 1, regional drive-thru, outdoor walk-up, and indoor walk-in COVID-19 testing clinics will be held Fayette, Forest, Lycoming, Perry, and Susquehanna counties. This is the last...
February 26, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today announced that it has aligned its COVID-19 quarantine guidance for fully vaccinated individuals with that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “We know that Pennsylvanians are eager to...
February 26, 2021
In the midst of a gun violence crisis and surging homicides overwhelming Black Philadelphians, elected officials and police brass say now is the time for the Republican-controlled state Legislature to strike down the state’s “pre-emption” law that prohibits local...
February 25, 2021
February 25, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 25, there were 2,356 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 922,990. There are 1,972 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 25, 2021
February 24, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 24, there were 2,786 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 920,634. There are 1,963 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 24, 2021
Pennsylvania’s new COVID-19 vaccine task force has been meeting for less than two weeks, but legislative members say the group is already making strides to improve the state’s struggling vaccination program. Republican state Sen. Ryan Aument of Lancaster,...
February 23, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 23, there were 2,830 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 917,848. There are 1,963 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 23, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health (DOH) today shared its weekly update on Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing data and encouraged Pennsylvanians to download the COVID Alert PA app, as more than 790,000 have already...
February 23, 2021
Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that Pennsylvania may launch a centralized tool to help residents sign up to receive COVID-19 immunizations, a move that lawmakers are increasingly touting as an alternative to the current patchwork of registration systems run by the state’s...
February 22, 2021
Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System dashboard, highlighting a seven-day case increase of 14,886, a...
February 22, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 22, there were 1,521 additional positive cases of COVID-19, in addition to 1,906 new cases reported Sunday, February 21, for a two-day total of 3,427...
February 20, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 20, that there were 2,818 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 911,591. There...
February 19, 2021
Today, Governor Tom Wolf signed a fourth renewal of his 90-day Proclamation of Disaster Emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first proclamation was signed on March 6, following the announcement of the first two presumptive positive cases of the virus in...
February 19, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration today provided an update on Pennsylvania’s progress administering COVID-19 vaccines to residents and staff of long-term and congregate care facilities eligible in Phase 1A. To date, more than 193,000 residents and...
February 19, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Health today announced beginning Sunday, February 21, regional drive-thru, outdoor walk-up, and indoor walk-in COVID-19 testing clinics will be held in Huntingdon, Lackawanna, Northumberland, Venango, and Westmoreland...
February 19, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 19, there were 2,778 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 908,773. There are 2,124 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 19, 2021
Pennsylvania’s bipartisan COVID-19 task force was only a few days past its first meeting when it was told of the vaccine distribution mistake that is now expected to cause a ripple effect across the state. Pennsylvania’s Department of Health announced...
February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021
First Lady Frances Wolf addressed mental health, trauma, and equity during COVID-19 in a virtual conversation hosted on Facebook. This was the third conversation in a series titled, “The Bigger Picture,” an extension of One Lens: Sharing Our Common...
February 18, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 18, there were 3,345 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 905,995. There are 2,174 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
February 18, 2021
A great many people in Northwest Philadelphia and the adjacent suburbs were undoubtedly delighted over the Biden/Harris victory in Pennsylvania in November, but I doubt if anyone was more exhilarated than Andrea Koplove. That’s because Koplove, 45, a Chestnut...
February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – In the January 2021 report, Pennsylvania Department of Health nursing home surveyors conducted 712 inspections, including 351 complaint investigations, of 472 separate nursing homes. Of these, 222 were COVID-19-specific investigations....
February 17, 2021
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., February 17, there were 3,413 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 902,650. There are 2,356 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of...
