Acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter visited the COVID-19 testing site at the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority in State College to promote testing and getting a booster.

In the children’s book “The Extraordinary Pause,” life during the COVID-19 pandemic comes to a standstill.

As Pennsylvania continues to see record-setting numbers of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, schools in central Pennsylvania are seeing rising numbers of cases and Penn State is reporting an increased positivity rate too. The Pennsylvania Department of Health is reporting a record high of more than 7,000 hospitalizations statewide Tuesday.

Katriona Shea, a professor in the biological sciences at Penn State, is co-leader of the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub Coordination Team. It brings together researchers from institutions across the United States to offer projections on the pandemic and advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WPSU spoke with Shea about what we might expect from Omicron and the pandemic.

One of the many parts of our lives the COVID-19 pandemic has changed for almost two years now is dating.

Tom Charles, executive vice president of Mount Nittany Health, spoke to the Centre County Board of Commissioners Tuesday, describing the "incredibly difficulty circumstances" the hospital and its staff are working under as COVID-19 hospitalizations continue.

Pennsylvania's highest court is throwing out a statewide mask mandate for schoolchildren, raising the prospect that at least some students in the state may soon be allowed to attend classes without a face covering.

Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College said it is facing challenges in capacity that it has not experienced since the pandemic began.