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Health officials say this year’s U.S. measles epidemic has surpassed 1,000 illnesses. It’s already the highest in 27 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the count Wednesday, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. Most are from outbreaks in New York in Orthodox Jewish communities. The nation last saw this many cases... Governor May 24, 2019 A bill to end Maine’s religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccines is heading to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 19-16 Thursday to enact the bill. Gov. Janet ...

Philadelphia has seen 3,100 coronavirus deaths since March 10th, 2020. But for the first time since the vaccine roll out began, there are more people vaccinated in Philly than known infections. NBC10’s investigative reporter Mitch Blacher spoke to the City’s Health Commissioner who says if the city hadn’t taken the action they had since the pandemic began, the death toll...

Health department ignored ‘red flags’ in Philly Fighting COVID partnership, inspector general says Ellie Silverman, Laura McCrystal, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Andrei Doroshin, CEO of Philly Fighting COVID, during a press conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 8. Also shown are Councilman Bobby Henon, (right) and Mayor Jim Kenney. The health department failed to properly vet Philly Fighting COVID before allowing the nascent group to run the city’s first mass vaccination clinic in early January, desp...

When the relationship was terminated, Farley blamed PFC for not informing the city it had created a for-profit arm nor that it had updated its terms of service, allowing people's personal data collected on its website to be sold. Both of these were issues were first reported on by the Inquirer. Farley also was bothered by the group's abrupt discontinuation of some COVID-19 testing services that had been run in partnership with the city for months, as reported on by WHYY. DeSantis' report said there were red flags that should have prevented PFC from becoming the city's leading vaccine partner,...

Updated on March 9, 2021 at 9:31 am NBC Universal, Inc. What to Know A 16-page report from Philadelphia's Inspector General found that the city's health department failed to exercise due diligence and ignored numerous red flags while working with Philly Fighting COVID. The report also found that Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley did not violate any laws during the city's partnership with the group. In a response to the report, Mayor Jim Kenney said he believed the Inspector General’s findings “accurately reflect the mistakes that were made.” He also said he fully accepted the reco...