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Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College said it is facing challenges in capacity that it has not experienced since the pandemic began. -
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On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Toi Derricotte and her poem "A little prayer to our lady."
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An archive recording of the WPSU Jazz Show as broadcast on December 3, 2021, and hosted by Greg Petersen.
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The number of COVID-19 cases reported in Pennsylvania increased by more than 10,000 Friday, according to the state Department of Health, the biggest one-day increase in coronavirus cases Pennsylvania has seen since Jan. 8. The number of inpatients at Mount Nittany Health reached 59 on Friday.
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Penn State announced details this week on how it plans to enforce President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
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Katriona Shea, an Alumni Professor in the biological sciences at Penn State, is co-leader of a national team that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Known as the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub Coordination Team, it brings together researchers from institutions across the United States to offer projections on the pandemic. Shea spoke with WPSU about how scientific modeling works, how it can be used when dealing with pandemics and the Omicron variant.
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The Maryland Air National Guard wants to conduct combat training flights just 100 feet from the ground, sparking concerns that noise could cause tourism to decline and impact wild elk and bald eagles.
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Suresh Kuchipudi, a professor of virology at Penn State, is one of the lead researchers of a study of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer in Iowa in 2020-21. They found that the number of deer samples that tested positive increased over time, reaching 80% by the end of the year.
