By CARLA K. JOHNSON The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of…
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The gradual upward trend of COVID-19 cases continued for the fifth week in Berks County in the most recent Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard from the…
By ASTRID SUÁREZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the…
Reading Hospital has been chosen as one of 14 organizations across the country to receive a federal grant from a program designed to improve community…
A decision by a federal judge in Florida to throw out a national mask mandate for public transportation across the region and the U.S. created…
By CURT ANDERSON ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge’s decision to strike down a national mask mandate was met with cheers on some…
By CURT ANDERSON ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit Monday,…
Berks County has hired a firm to investigate the health care needs of its residents. The commissioners voted during their weekly board meeting Thursday to…
The COVID-19 pandemic that has tightly gripped the world for more than two years is, at its root, a public health threat. The highly infectious…
Like many people, Mary Kendig has spent the last two years wading through the fear and challenges of the COVID pandemic. The threat of the…
A new leader of Reading Hospital has been named. The Tower Health Board of Directors announced Thursday the appointment of Dr. Charles F. Barbera as…
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another COVID-19 booster for people age 50 and older, a step to offer extra…
The LGBT Center of Greater Reading will be expanding its reach to communities outside Berks County. The nonprofit organization announced Wednesday that it will be…
The researcher who accurately forecast the rapid decline of the omicron surge believes there will be no new surges in the United States until the…
COATESVILLE — The Veterans Affairs Department this week recommended closing 17 of its 171 medical centers, among them the Coatesville Veterans Administration Center in Caln…
By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations…