Healthcare
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April 7 Morning Update on COVID-19: Pennsylvania’s Death Toll Exceeds 25,000
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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N.Y. Times: Approximately One in 15 Chester Countians Have Been Infected by COVID-19
The number of cases has continued to increase over the last two weeks, keeping Chester County at a very high risk level for the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. The number of hospitalized patients has also increased while COVID-19-related deaths have remained roughly the same compared to two weeks ago. The test positivity…
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April 6 Afternoon Update on COVID-19: State Reports 4,255 New Cases, 37 More Deaths
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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April 6 Morning Update on COVID-19: Chester County Records 422 New Cases from the Weekend
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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Embattled Tower Health Sweetens the Pot by Adding Its Flagship Hospital to Portfolio for Sale
Tower Health, the financially struggling health system that owns several local hospitals, is having trouble finding interested parties after putting all of its hospitals and related businesses up for sale, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. So far, the biggest health systems in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have said they are not interested. “We obviously…
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April 5 Afternoon Update on COVID-19: State Reports Two-Day Total of 6,651 New Cases
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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April 5 Morning Update on COVID-19: Chester County Sees Massive Increases in Positivity, Incidence Rates
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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Malvern Company Readies for FDA Submission of COVID-19 Vaccine
Later this month, Malvern-based Ocugen will seek an emergency-use authorization from the FDA to cooperate with Bharat Biotech for the India-based company’s COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. According to Shankar Musunuri, CEO of Ocugen, the company is also in talks with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority on…
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April 2 Afternoon Update on COVID-19: State Reports 4,656 New Cases, 28 More Deaths
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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April 2 Morning Update on COVID-19: Chester County Records 158 New Cases, Two More Deaths
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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April 1 Afternoon Update on COVID-19: State Reports 3,893 New Cases, 27 More Deaths
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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April 1 Morning Update on COVID-19: Chester County Records Two-Day Total of 403 New Cases
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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March 31 Afternoon Update on COVID-19: State Reports 4,557 New Cases, 44 More Deaths
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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N.Y. Times: Cases Are Increasing in Chester County, Keeping Risk Level for COVID-19 Very High
The number of COVID-19 cases has started to increase once again over the last two weeks, keeping Chester County at a very high risk level for the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. The number of hospitalized patients has fallen, while COVID-19-related deaths have remained roughly the same compared to two weeks ago. The…
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March 31 Morning Update on COVID-19: Chester County’s Cases Represent 3 Percent of the State’s Total
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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Washington Post Reveals How Chester County’s Share of Fully Vaccinated Residents Compares to State’s, Nation’s
Chester County is lagging behind both the state and national averages in its share of fully vaccinated residents, write Dan Keating, Naema Ahmed, Harry Stevens, Jessica Wolfrom and Monica Ulmanu for The Washington Post. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, so far, Chester County has fully vaccinated 14.6 percent of…
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Kennett Square’s Struggling Genesis HealthCare Nabs Turnaround Specialist as Its Second CEO in Three Months
Kennett Square-based Genesis HealthCare, which operates more than 325 skilled nursing facilities and senior living communities nationwide, has named Harry Wilson, a turnaround specialist and former hedge fund manager, to the position of CEO, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Wilson is Genesis’s second CEO in three months. He replaces Robert H. Fish,…
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March 30 Afternoon Update on COVID-19: State Reports 5,032 New Cases
Editor’s Note: The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s daily report for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Chester County and Delaware County have not accurately reflected the actual number of cases in both counties. This is usually because of Delaware County cases that are incorrectly assigned to Chester County, which the Chester County Health Department corrects prior…
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