June 5, 2020 Car Crashes Spike During Coronavirus Although generally speaking the roads have been quieter since the United States entered a widespread shutdown in response to COVID-19, public safety agencies say that automobile crash death rates are spiking in several states. While many officials say they initially believed fatalities would dip during the pandemic, the opposite is happening. In many cases, speeding … Read More »
June 5, 2020 Pennsylvania’s Plan to Reopen: What the Different Stages Mean Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has instructed residents and businesses to observe shelter-at-home and reduced operation orders since mid-March, but the state is now slowly starting to embark on its reopening process. Several counties have moved from the ‘red phase’ to the ‘yellow phase,’ and some have even made it all the way to green. Locals … Read More »
June 3, 2020 Symptoms: “COVID Toes” and Loss of Smell On January 20th, public health officials confirmed the first known case of COVID-19 in the U.S. Since then, more than 100,000 Americans have died from the deadly respiratory virus. Countless health agencies around the world are advising people to look out for certain symptoms, such as shortness of breath, fever, and cough, but doctors and … Read More »
May 5, 2020 CDC Names Six New COVID-19 Symptoms The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just issued an important update to its current list of COVID-19 symptoms, adding six new possible signs indicating that someone may be a carrier of the respiratory virus. With more than one million confirmed cases and tens of thousands dead in the United States, critical updates like … Read More »
April 23, 2020 Governor Wolf Orders All PA Residents To Wear Masks In Essential Businesses Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s order that all employees and customers of essential businesses across the state must wear masks came into effect at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 19th. Because COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory illness that spreads primarily through close contact from person-to-person and through the respiratory droplets of an infected person, the … Read More »
April 16, 2020 Kids and COVID-19 As thousands of schools remain closed throughout the Tristate area, millions of families are scrambling to adjust to everyday life now that their kids and teens are at home with no concrete deadline in sight. Luckily, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say there is no evidence indicating that children are at higher … Read More »
April 8, 2020 How To Make A Protective Mask In order to slow the spread of the Coronavirus and prevent hospitals from becoming overrun with critical cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that most people wear a protective mask or face covering. The CDC recommends people wear them in spaces where social distancing is tough to maintain, like at … Read More »
April 7, 2020 Postal Workers Unprepared for COVID-Related Risks Despite being one of the largest employers in the United States, people who work for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) say they are not being adequately protected or receiving the necessary supplies in order to protect themselves from the COVID-19 health hazards they are encountering on the job. With the U.S. now leading the world … Read More »
April 6, 2020 PA To Face Possible Shortage Of Medical Supplies In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals across the country are facing unprecedented shortages of lifesaving medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 respirators, eye protection, facemasks, and gowns. Sadly, Pennsylvania is now joining the ranks of other states that are running low on these critical items. The PA Department of … Read More »
