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Chris Woods & Matt Yarnell: Badge bill would help protect health care workers
One change could help to keep health care workers safe Every day they risk their lives so that you and I can be safe. But are we doing enough to ensure nurses and other caregivers are safe and protected? Our health care workers have been holding Pennsylvania together during covid-19....
2 more covid-19 cases reported in Westmoreland County, no new deaths
Westmoreland County on Sunday reported two additional coronavirus cases and no new deaths, according to state health officials. That brings the total number of cases to 449. The total number of deaths remains at 38. Close to 9,500 people have tested negative for the virus. Neither the state nor coroner...
Pennsylvania reports 18 more covid-19 deaths, case count hits close to 72K
Pennsylvania health officials on Sunday reported 18 more covid-19 deaths Sunday, and 511 additional positive cases. That brings the state’s total number of deaths to 5,555 and case count to 71,926. Sixty-seven percent of the total cases have recovered. About 5,455 of the total cases are in health care workers....
Allegheny County reports 14 new covid-19 cases, no new deaths
Allegheny County on Sunday reported no new covid-19 deaths and 14 new cases, both at the state and county level. The latest figures bring the total number of cases to 1,911. The number of deaths reported by county officials remains at 151. State officials continue to report 163 deaths. County...
Massive U.S. protests raise fears of new virus outbreaks
LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Atlanta, one of dozens of U.S. cities hit by massive protests in recent days, has a message for demonstrators: “If you were out protesting last night, you probably need to go get a covid test this week.” As more beaches, churches, schools and businesses...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump walking the high wire on coronavirus
Lately, Donald Trump has been missing the mark, one that he usually hits without fail. As a brilliant counter-punching tactician, he could take down his opponents with a cutting nickname. He could enflame his supporters’ passions by finding just the right distortion of his opponents’ records and dominate news cycles,...
N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs bill granting front-line worker death benefits
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Saturday granting death benefits to the families of police officers, public health workers and other front-line workers who have died of the coronavirus. “You gave your lives for us; we will be there for your families going forward,” Cuomo...
3 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths in Westmoreland County
Three new covid-19 cases were reported Saturday in Westmoreland County, with no new deaths. The countywide case total is now 447, with 38 deaths, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The county had a total of 10 new cases this week, with no reported deaths. Westmoreland County Coroner Kenneth...
Pennsylvania reports 680 new coronavirus cases, 73 deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 73 new covid-19 deaths and 680 new cases Saturday. That brings the state’s total case count to 71,415, with 5,537 deaths. The state considers an additional 616 patients as probable cases, which have not confirmed. Nursing and personal care homes account for 15,376 cases...
Allegheny County adds 27 coronavirus cases, no new deaths
Allegheny County reported 27 additional cases of the coronavirus Saturday, bringing the total number of cases countywide to 1,897. No new deaths were reported, leaving the total at 151. There were also no new deaths on Friday. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 163 Allegheny County deaths, several more than...
Andrew Smolar, M.D.: Technology binds us, separates us
In 2016, I was president of our psychoanalytic organization, when progressive colleagues aimed to train new psychoanalysts in China — which would mean providing intensive telehealth psychotherapy for them. The faculty was divided about the idea, as some favored treating patients in-person only. I was torn. I am traditional, but...
Number of eliminated college sports programs nearing 100
Four-year colleges facing budget shortfalls stemming from the pandemic are approaching an unwelcome milestone: In coming days, the number of eliminated sports programs will almost surely pass 100. Research by The Associated Press found a total of 97 teams eliminated at four-year schools through Friday. The count includes only teams...
$349 USB ‘bioshield’ taps into 5G, coronavirus conspiracy fears
Clark Stanley would be proud. The “Rattlesnake King,” a former cowboy, made a splash at the 1893 World’s Exposition in Chicago by cutting open a live snake in front of onlookers as a promotion for “Stanley’s Snake Oil,” a liniment later found to contain no snake oil of any kind,...
Covid-19 lockdown costs Allegheny Health Network hospitals $160M in revenue; system gets $300M in federal aid
Allegheny Health Network hospitals lost $160 million in revenue from mid-March through April, when the coronavirus lockdown halted elective procedures at health care facilities statewide, financial forms filed Friday show. Volumes plunged by about 50% as slews of nonurgent surgeries were canceled and hospitals prepared for a possible surge in...
John Stossel: Jo Jorgensen, a different presidential candidate
We have a choice! Next presidential election, we don’t have to decide between two big-spending candidates, neither of whom has expressed much interest in limited government. Now, we have a third serious choice. This week, Jo Jorgensen, a psychology lecturer at Clemson University, won the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination. OK,...
Eat’n Park poised to resume in-person dining June 5Video
Eat’n Park Hospitality Group officials are excited to make and see more smiles next week as dine-in options resume at most restaurants. “Many of our guests have been quarantined,” President and CEO Jeff Broadhurst said Friday afternoon. “They’ve been sitting in their house ready to get out. They want to...
Kiski Area to continue remote learning in the fall but devising hybrid plan for some in-person instruction
When it comes to in-person schooling amid a pandemic, Kiski Area Superintendent Tim Scott said there are many factors to consider — the seating arrangements, the mask requirements, how students will be bused and dropped off, how athletics will function, how students will operate in lunchrooms. He thought of the...
U.S. Health Secretary says feds investigating Brighton nursing home coronavirus outbreak
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar questioned Friday whether Pennsylvania officials have been “aggressive enough” in flagging and enforcing violations at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, where at least 76 residents have died of covid-19. Azar discussed the Trump administration’s concerns over the Beaver County nursing home’s coronavirus...
Pennsylvania school districts will reopen for fall 2020
There’s “no question” that Pennsylvania school districts will physically reopen this fall, Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday. “Schooling will look different,” Wolf said. “You’ll probably have more online learning and maybe less classroom learning, there might be fewer students in each classroom.” The Pennsylvania Department of Education is expected to...
U.S. cuts World Health Organization ties over virus response
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization, saying it had failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus because China has “total control” over the global organization. He said Chinese officials “ignored” their reporting obligations to the WHO...
Virus ignited in U.S. no earlier than mid-January, study says
NEW YORK — The spark that started the U.S. coronavirus epidemic arrived during a three-week window from mid-January to early February, before the nation halted travel from China, according to the most comprehensive federal study to date of when the virus began spreading. That means anyone in the U.S. who...
Kristen O’Toole: Masks mean life or death
Wearing a mask is not a political statement for me. It is life or death. I have multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease that is different in everyone. My body attacks its own central nervous system. The disease-modifying therapy I get every 28 days at the hospital intravenously suppresses my...
Westmoreland County adds 1 new coronavirus case, no new deaths
One new covid-19 case was reported in Westmoreland County on Friday, bringing the countywide total to 444. No new deaths were reported. That leaves the countywide total at 38, according to data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Allegheny County reported 19 additional cases of the coronavirus Friday, bringing...
Pennsylvania adds 693 coronavirus cases, 91 new deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Friday reported 91 new deaths and 693 additional cases of the coronavirus. The state has now had 70,735 total cases and 5,464 deaths. Deaths have been recorded in 55 of the state’s 67 counties, and every county has had a positive case. More than...
Sen. Bob Casey tests positive for covid-19 antibodies, donates plasma
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said he donated plasma Friday after he learned he had antibodies to covid-19, hoping it will help others fighting covid-19. Casey, D-Scranton, said an antibody test he took last week suggested that the mild flu-like symptoms and low-grade fever he experienced earlier this spring were caused...
