Long before the coronavirus paralyzed the country, healthcare was a top concern among most Pennsylvanians. And healthcare will remain a top issue through the crisis and well after the November national elections, according to experts who have been monitoring long-term trends.

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. 

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. 

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.

Every Ribbon Counts, a Nazareth-based charity dedicated to supporting cancer patients, has had to find new ways to raise support during the pandemic, which has shut down in-person fundraising events.

Pennsylvania’s construction industry will return to work May 1, one week earlier than previously announced, but will do so under safety guidelines issued by Gov. Tom Wolf.

Crisis planning, innovating and adapting, agile marketing, expressing gratitude — these are all important business practices universally, without exception. Looking toward the post-pandemic road ahead gives us reason to pause and make sure these practices are front and center.

PRLA officials said they will begin accepting applications for HARP on April 23, and the application portal will end May 5. Only the first 1,000 applicants will be accepted during the first round.