🏖️ Ventnor beaches will reopen next Friday for “passive recreation,” but the boardwalk will remain closed.
🏥 The CDC says Pennsylvania leads the nation in coronavirus cases among meat plant workers
😷 Pennsylvania will partner with health-care workers and academic institutions to increase contact tracing.
- PHILADELPHIA: 15,137 confirmed cases
- SUBURBAN PA: 12,741 confirmed cases
- SOUTH JERSEY: 9,526 confirmed cases
After Troy Randle’s COVID-19 symptoms ended, he had a stroke. The 49-year-old New Jersey cardiologist is not the only one. It seems more people his age and younger have suffered strokes as a result of infection with the coronavirus, though doctors are just beginning to understand the connections between the two. A Jefferson University Hospital physician and researcher recently reported on coronavirus-positive stroke patients, describing 12 patients and how some of them had no virus symptoms before their strokes. Read more here.
While coronavirus cases and social distancing measures have forced large meat-processing plants to close, less meat is getting to grocery stores. “The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Foods’ chairman John Tyson wrote this week in a national ad. So if it has been hard for you to find meat, you can turn to this list of smaller Philly-area businesses, like restaurant suppliers-turned-retailers, area farms, local co-ops and butcher shops.
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- Grieving families are turning to GoFundMe, struggling to pay for COVID-19 burials. In past disasters, FEMA has helped pay for the burials of victims, but President Donald Trump hasn’t released that money, ProPublica reports.
- Foster kids are aging out of the system and they’re anxious, without housing, food, money, or mental and emotional support. BillyPenn reports Pennsylvania is lagging behind other states in helping foster youth.
- Labs across the United States are joining a federal initiative to study the coronavirus, the New York Times reports. They will trace patterns of transmission, investigate outbreaks, and map its evolution.
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