The Pennsylvania Association of Realtors is throwing its support behind House Bill 2412, sponsored by Todd Polinchock, R-Chalfont, that would reopen the real estate industry as a life-sustaining business.

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.

Golf courses, marinas, guided fishing trips and privately owned campgrounds in Pennsylvania may reopen statewide starting May 1, the Wolf administration announced. 

Hospitals in the commonwealth can resume their elective surgeries and procedures if they follow new guidance released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

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. 

Lehigh Carbon Community College students who have been impacted by COVID-19 will have access to grants through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

The unprecedented volume of crisis loan applications is shifting lender-borrower relationships, as community banks establish lending relationships with small business owners who struggled to receive financial support at bigger banks.

Many people are working from home for the first time amid the global coronavirus pandemic, often struggling with the logistics of their new remote responsibilities.

More than half of Pennsylvania’s 1,550 COVID-19 deaths -- 952 --  were residents of nursing or personal care facilities, the state Department of Health reports.

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.