Health Care

Our maps and graphs tracking the spread of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania are updated every day at around 12 p.m., 7 days a week, with new state data.

Pennsylvania nursing homes were the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. We need to apply the lessons of that canary in the coalmine experience.

Zandrea Ambrose is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She spoke with our partners at the Pittsburgh Current.

Health Department spokesman Nate Wardle told the Capital-Star in an email that he made a mistake when he said Thursday that an unknown number of Pennsylvania's 300,000 negative COVID-19 test results came from antibody tests, rather than the diagnostic tests that are considered the “gold standard” for disease control.

A new system of counting COVID-19 fatalities will yield "as near to real time data," as possible on people statewide who are succumbing to the disease, Pennsylvania's top public health official said Monday.Facing significant...

The loss of 31 million jobs due to coronvirus has an added downside: 27 million have lost job-based health insurance. The worst may still lie ahead.

Pennsylvania’s delayed primary election is now rapidly approaching, but like almost everything else in our lives, COVID-19 has changed how candidates and voters are interacting.

The LBGTQ community faces special obstacles obtaining healthcare. Here's how one health system is overcoming them with sensitivity and empathy.

Funding for the measure comes from the federal CARES Act, which sent $3.9 billion to Pennsylvania for COVID-19 recovery programs.

Pennsylvania will begin a stricter testing regime for nursing homes, assisted living and other long term care facilities to contain the spread of COVID-19.