Regional urgent care provider Patient First is offering telehealth appointments for its patients in Pennsylvania, and drive-up COVID-19 testing at a number of its locations in the state.

Springettsbury Township, York County-based K2 Kinetics is working with Apple to design new equipment that will help accelerate the manufacture of COVID-19 test kits for hospitals across the country.

York County biotech company produces antiibody-like agents that can be used to fight and treat disease.

When the time comes for businesses to get back to work, it might be good beforehand to have as much data as possible about trends within a company or the region, so social distancing and mitigation can be catered to an individual company’s operation.

When the call came to leave the office, the staff at FORCEpkg took their computers and worked from home, something many of them had done before the downtown Lancaster package design firm purchased its brick and mortar headquarters.

Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Monday that nearly 1 million Pennsylvanians have already applied to vote by mail-in ballot for the June 2 primary election. It is the first time that Pennsylvanians can vote by mail without an excuse.

A task force created by the York County Commissioners is set to begin working on a plan for the county’s post-pandemic recovery.

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro is urging landlords across the state to not begin any new eviction proceedings until at least July 15.

The Tampa, Florida-based owner of restaurants such as Outback Steakhouse and Carrabba’s Italian Grill, announced it will be “vastly reducing hours” for nearly 3,000 of its employees in Pennsylvania.

Bars and restaurants in Pennsylvania may soon have another source of revenue if a bill now heading to the state senate is approved.

INOVIO, the Doylestown-based pharmaceutical company, has completed the first phase of its clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine. All 40 healthy volunteers in the trial have now received their first dose, INOVIO says.

Pennsylvania’s Health Disparity Task Force is calling for health care organizations to include race and ethnicity data when reporting COVID-19 test results to the state. The task force, formally announced on April 15, is designed to foster health care equality for minorities. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added six more symptoms for COVID-19. In addition to fever, cough, and shortness of breath, the CDC has added chills, shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and loss of taste or smell.

Long before the coronavirus paralyzed the country, healthcare was a top concern among most Pennsylvanians. And healthcare will remain a top issue through the crisis and well after the November national elections, according to experts who have been monitoring long-term trends.

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