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Higher heating bills; long COVID-19; and quick home sales: Good Morning, Pennsylvania

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What you need to know today, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021.

Today’s weather

High: 83; Low: 69. Showers possible today and tomorrrow; cool and clear Sunday.

Photo of the day

The Rupp family gets ready to ride unicycles in the Mechanicsburg Halloween parade this week. (Photo by Mark Pynes, PennLive.com.)

Coronavirus

Long COVID: While the belief is that most COVID-19 patients recover fully in about two weeks, “that is not accurate,” says one of the leaders of a Penn State study. It found half of survivors have lingering effects for six months or more. Read more.

Case counts: Over the past week, Pa. has averaged about 4,600 new coronavirus cases per day. As of yesterday, close to 3,000 people were hospitalized with the virus, 664 of them in ICUs. Read more.

Tim McRae, of Tim McRae Oil, gets back into his truck after a delivery of home heating oil in Trenton, New Jersey. Michael Mancuso/The Times, file

More money

Heating bills: With prices surging worldwide for fuels, the U.S. government expects households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54%. Read more.

Gas prices: Drivers in the Harrisburg area are paying almost a dime more for each gallon of gas than they were last week. Read more.

Home sales: In Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties, houses sold for higher prices, and quicker, in September 2021 than in September 2019. Read more.

Penn State head coach James Franklin and Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz meet before the game on Oct. 9, 2021. Joe Hermitt | jhermitt@pennlive.com

Football

Penn State: In today’s mailbag, during the Nittany Lions’ bye week, Bob Flounders talks about player injuries, Ohio State and bowl games. Read more.

NFL: The Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home in Thursday night football. Read more.

High school: We’ve made our picks and predictions for games this week in Mid-Penn Conference football. Read more.

In brief

Today in Pa. podcast: Fewer traffic stops allowed | Parts of Pa. are seeing peak fall foliage | WHO honors Henrietta Lacks and her cell legacy | John Deere workers go on strike after rejecting contract | Woman discovers 88 rattlesnakes under her house | Former President Bill Clinton hospitalized

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