More than 70 Geisinger Health System employees filed a class-action suit against Danville-based Geisinger Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals and clinics, claiming its COVID-19 testing requirements for employees exempt from getting the vaccine force them to choose between their religion and their jobs. 

After awarding over $10 billion in economic relief to nearly 12,000 theaters, live venues and other entertainment hubs across the country, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced a new round of “supplemental” grants for venues that continued to suffer revenue loss into 2021. 

Specialty chemical manufacturer Stoner Solutions was performing market testing on its popular glass cleaning “Invisible Glass” products in a bid to make the item more viable in the competitive household cleaning market. 

“I’m fully vaccinated. Can I come and see you in person?”   After more than a year of working remotely and seeing clients over Zoom, these requests are starting to come in. Now that COVID is winding down and restrictions are relaxing, organizations and companies have to figure out how to go back. And the really big question ...

It's been more than a year since the pandemic started, and the US economy is showing signs of recovery. Covid-19 vaccinations are rising, states have lifted some pandemic restrictions and many travelers are back on the road.

The bumper crop of pandemic gardeners continues to flourish as novice and experienced gardeners fuel soaring sales at local nursery yards and garden centers.

Midstate residents were mostly well informed on what was needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic but were overwhelmed with worries about mixed messages and distrust of some sources, according to researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine.

New guidance through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) allows anyone fully vaccinated to forgo face coverings in public settings, which could prove difficult for small businesses currently enforcing mask mandates.

Harrisburg Young Professionals (HYP) is offering free one-year memberships to young professionals impacted by the pandemic.

Cumberland County businesses negatively impacted by the pandemic will have access to $275,000 in grant funding through a new program by the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corp. (CAEDC).

Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Wednesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation at his home in York.

Gov. Tom Wolf extended the state’s Proclamation of Disaster Emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic for another 90-days.

“We’ve restructured internally to focus on virtual health not just throughout our on demand platform but through how we deliver those services,” Massini said. “I think that was the good thing that came out of COVID. It really pushed us to invest in how we deliver our care.”

Geisinger will temporarily restrict in-person visits to all of its hospitals, including Geisinger Holy Spirit, following spikes of positive COVID-19 cases across the state.

"We thought we dodged a bullet. We didn’t see the challenge ahead of us until we realized that the state was locking down everything and elective surgeries were put on hold,” said Chris Tarsa, president at C.L. Sturkey. “We got caught flat-footed when everything started to shut down.”