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Graham Hetrick has made a career of signing off on cause of death reports as Dauphin County coroner. But lately, he’s been authoring an evolving minority report if you will on the coronavirus pandemic, one that clashes loudly with the medical establishment on issues such as the effectiveness of vaccines and the usefulness of masking. And the more he speaks up about it, the more pushback he’s getting. “I’m a little surprised that a public official would think he knows better than all of these organizations,” a UPMC infectious disease specialist told ABC27 Wednesday. “A result of these kinds of...

Face masks for students and staff will be required indoors in the Central Dauphin School District at the start of the new school year. The decision came Monday night after more than two hours of parents -- both for and against their child being required to wear a mask -- shared their comments with the school board on the often-controversial subject. About 50 people attended the meeting, which was generally calm, though several shouted at school board members after they cast the 7-2 vote in favor of changing the district’s health and safety plan to require masking indoors. And among...