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Virus relief grants for Westmoreland small businesses, nonprofits pushed to September
Westmoreland County small businesses and nonprofit agencies will have to wait until September to find out if they’ve been award grants through the county to compensate them for lost revenue and expenses related to the coronavirus. Commissioners said Tuesday the process to review the 450 applications submitted in late July...
Pa. Department of Health launches mobile covid-19 testing RV
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Tuesday announced a new covid-19 mobile response unit, designed to provide testing and education for minority and underserved communities. The effort is part of a partnership with Latino Connection, Highmark Blue Shield and the Independence Blue Cross Foundation. “We share a unified purpose of...
Pennsylvania adds 561 new covid-19 cases, 26 new deaths to totals
Pennsylvania reported 561 new coronavirus cases Tuesday, according to the state Department of Health. The state’s covid-19 cases count is now 130,035, as a result. Between resident cases (20,798) and employee cases (4,411), there are 25,209 covid-19 cases from nursing and personal care homes. That accounts for 19% of total...
Westmoreland County marks another day of single digit new covid-19 cases
Westmoreland County has eight new coronavirus cases, according to the state Department of Health. All of the new reported covid-19 cases in the county are confirmed and bring the case total to 1,748. No new deaths were reported and the death total remains at 49, where it has remained for...
Revved by Sturgis Rally, covid-19 infections move fast, far
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have departed western South Dakota, but public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how much and how quickly the coronavirus spread in bars, tattoo shops and gatherings before people traveled...
WWII surrender ceremony in Hawaii limited to local veterans
HONOLULU — A Pearl Harbor ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II — possibly the last opportunity for many elderly U.S. veterans to commemorate the day — will be limited to survivors of the war living in Hawaii because of coronavirus concerns. The plan before...
Scientists: Hong Kong man got coronavirus a 2nd time
University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes covid-19. Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d...
Spain adds thousands of new coronavirus cases
MADRID — Fearing an even sharper surge in coronavirus infections with the opening of the school year in September, some Spanish regions moved Monday to impose new measures against the spread of the pandemic, including bans on large social gatherings. On Monday, when Spain’s Ministry of Health reported figures for...
Jim Bakker gets PPP loans during legal fight on fraud claims
When the U.S. government extended pandemic hardship loans to thousands of religious institutions, Jim Bakker and Morningside USA, his ministry in Blue Eye, Mo., were among the most high-profile recipients. On April 28, the pastor received approval for an amount between $650,000 and $1.7 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds....
Westmoreland County reports 9 new covid cases, no deaths
For the sixth time this month, Westmoreland County saw a new covid-19 case count in single digits, according to Monday’s report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Posting nine new cases — all of which were confirmed, Westmoreland was among 33 counties in the state to add less than 10...
Pennsylvania adds 426 new covid cases, 1 new death
On Monday, Pennsylvania added the second lowest number of new cases of coronavirus since mid-July. The state’s Department of Health added 426 new covid-19 cases, with 415 of them confirmed and 11 probable. The state reports 157,052 tests were conducted from Aug. 17-23, producing 4,588 positive cases. The state added...
Stephen Bloom: Eliminate barriers to crisis-ready health care
An emergency is no time to trifle with bureaucratic red tape. At the outset of the covid-19 crisis, many feared a surge of patients would overwhelm hospital capacity. Health officials sounded the alarm and identified policy changes that would enable them to meet the coronavirus challenge. And in many cases,...
Allegheny County’s covid positivity rate has dropped 3 percentage points since mid-July
In adding 29 cases, the Allegheny County Health Department posted its second lowest count of new instances of covid-19 Monday. Over the past week (Aug. 13-24), the county has announced 428 new cases, more than a 25% decline in new cases from the previous seven-day period — 572 new cases...
Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for covid-19Video
WASHINGTON — After expressing frustration at the slow pace of approval for coronavirus treatments, President Donald Trump announced Sunday the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for covid-19 patients. The announcement came after days of White House officials suggesting there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in...
Westmoreland County adds 15 new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County saw 15 new cases of covid-19 added to its total Sunday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported. There were 20 new cases added on Saturday and 18 cases on Friday. The seven-day average for the county is 16 cases. The county’s total cases are now 1,731 with 1,679...
Pennsylvania reports 619 new coronavirus cases, 2 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Sunday reported 619 new coronavirus cases, as the seven-day average case count dropped to 655. The state Department of Health reported two new deaths attributed to coronavirus after posting 18 on Saturday and 20 on Friday. The state total stands at 7,578. The two deaths are attributed to...
Allegheny County reports 86 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County on Sunday recorded 86 new coronavirus cases with no new deaths. The county’s total number of cases stands at 9,903 with 6,779 recoveries. According to the Allegheny County Health Department’s covid-19 dashboard, 143,484 individuals have tested for the virus. The county has an overall 7% positive test result...
Vandergrift native to compete in virtual ‘East Coast Regional GrandSLAM’
Mariah Passarelli is going to share her story. The Vandergrift native who lives in Downtown Pittsburgh is one of eight people competing in The Moth’s first virtual East Coast Regional “GrandSLAM—A Multi-City Showdown” at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to...
Miami ICU nurse: I have never in my life seen so many deaths
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them — the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus. A 41-year-old ICU nurse in Miami’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, Ruiz has witnessed the desperate, pleading, wide-eyed, barely there...
As more colleges stay online, students demand tuition cuts
As more universities abandon plans to reopen and decide instead to keep classes online this fall, it’s leading to conflict between students who say they deserve tuition discounts and college leaders who insist remote learning is worth the full cost. Disputes are flaring both at colleges that announced weeks ago...
Pennsylvania reports 796 new coronavirus cases, 18 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 796 new coronavirus cases, as the case count inches slowly upward from the weekly average of 688. The state Department of Health reported 18 new deaths attributed to coronavirus after posting 20 on Friday. Sunday’s total of 33 was the highest total of the week. Saturday’s...
Westmoreland County adds 20 new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County saw 20 new cases of covid-19 added to its total Saturday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported. No additional deaths were reported, leaving the death toll at 49. The county last reported a death from the virus on Wednesday. There have been three deaths attributed to covid-19 in...
Allegheny County reports 61 new coronavirus cases, 2 new deaths
Allegheny County on Saturday recorded 61 new coronavirus cases and two additional deaths. The county now has a total of 9,817 cases of covid-19 and 306 deaths. All of Saturday’s cases have been confirmed. Officials also reported 7 new hospitalizations, bringing that total to 922 since the virus was first...
Sturgis rally linked to 15 Minnesota COVID-19 cases, including 1 hospitalization
MINNEAPOLIS — State health officials say 15 Minnesotans who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including one state resident hospitalized with covid-19. The Minnesota Department of Health received the first case report on Thursday and 14 more case reports on Friday, said...
VisitPittsburgh’s new marketing campaign invites people to rediscover the cityVideo
VisitPittsburgh is inviting people to visit Pittsburgh again. A new marketing campaign, “Rediscover Pittsburgh,” aims to drive visitation and encourage local and regional audiences to plan a weekday or weekend getaway right here in Pittsburgh. Via social media, VisitPittsburgh has been highlighting the area’s three rivers, outdoor dining possibilities, museum...
