Health Care

Welcome to the Capital-Star’s COVID-19 dashboard, where we’re tracking new COVID-19 cases and testing data based on the latest information from state health officials. Our interactive graphics are updated at roughly noon each day with...

The new sites, which include houses of worship, will offer a box of food per household on Mondays and Thursdays between 10 a.m. and noon.

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Gov. Tom Wolf and the U.S. Congress need to allocate funds to raise nursing home workers’ wages, for union and non-union workers alike

An employee at Allegheny County jail has tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Friday.

Most of the state's 22 fatalities to date have occurred in patients aged 65 and older. There have been no pediatric deaths so far.

States are receiving old or expired medical supplies from the federal stockpile. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advice: Use them anyway.

The city was actively negotiating with five or six other facility owners, mostly hotels, to rent out about 800 rooms, officials said.

What’s more, the risks of spreading COVID-19 -- coupled with the restrictions that public officials have put in place to contain it -- are preventing social workers from entering homes to investigate abuse claims, they said.

The state has test results for 18,128 people for coronavirus, 16,441 of whom have tested negative.