Starting today, Altoona Area School District students will no longer be required to wear masks inside district buildings, but masks will still be required on all district transportation. In an email to district parents Sunday afternoon, Altoona Superintendent Charles A. Prijatelj said the ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg Area School Board voted 5-4 to allow optional masking in its schools Wednesday night. Board members Carmen Bilek and Jennifer Costanza, who were recently elected to four-year terms in November’s election, were vital in the meeting’s motions. During the ...

One of Pennsylvania’s largest health systems has run out of beds because of the latest COVID-19 surge, with doctors and nurses practicing “waiting room medicine” on patients who are forced to endure 10- to 20-hour delays in the emergency department, officials said Wednesday. Geisinger ...

HARRISBURG — A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary on Wednesday defended the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-12 schools to fight COVID-19, asking state Supreme Court justices to focus on a single regulation. “If this court finds that the ...

The Borough of State College has extended its temporary Emergency Masking Ordinance through Jan. 31, 2022. Borough council at its Monday, Dec. 6, meeting voted to extend Ordinance 2170 that mandates all borough businesses and other public facilities to require face coverings to be worn ...

Monoclonal antibody therapy involving four quick injections works “essentially” as well in helping patients recover from COVID-19 as the more cumbersome intravenous infusions, according to a recent UPMC clinical trial. The injection routine has allowed UPMC to double the number of ...