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Approval of new antiviral drug brings hope, confusion
DALLAS — As Raymond Schinazi watched Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal data from a highly anticipated clinical trial late last month, he knew he was witnessing history. Here was Dr. Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, sitting with President Trump at a White House meeting, revealing to reporters a new...
Hopkins expert refutes Trump in Fox appearance: ‘This virus isn’t going to go away’
BALTIMORE — Two days after President Trump broke with health experts and said he believes the coronavirus will go away without a vaccine, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security refuted his claim. “This virus isn’t going to go away,” Dr. Tom Inglesby told Chris Wallace on...
Westmoreland County adds 2 new covid-19 cases, no new deaths
Westmoreland County reported two additional cases of covid-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of people to test positive for the virus to 417, according to Pennsylvania health officials. No new deaths from the virus were reported. Westmoreland County is one of the counties that will shift to the yellow...
Pennsylvania reports 19 new covid-19 deaths; total coronavirus cases top 56K
Pennsylvania health officials reported 19 more covid-19 deaths Sunday, and 1,295 additional positive cases, bringing the statewide death total to 3,707 and positive case total to 56,611. People in all 67 counties have tested positive for the virus. More than 227,700 people have tested negative. Starting Friday, two dozen northern...
Covid-19 claims 2 more lives in Allegheny County
Two more people in Allegheny County have died from covid-19, raising the death toll to 122, the Allegheny County Health Department said Sunday morning. Seventeen more people were confirmed as either having covid-19 or were probable over the past day, raising the total number on Sunday to 1,503 cases, the...
14th Port Authority employee tests positive for covid-19
A Port Authority of Allegheny County bus driver is being treated at an area hospital for covid-19, bringing the agency’s total number of employees who have tested positive to 14, the agency said Sunday. The employee, who works at the East Liberty garage, last worked on May 5, according to...
2 members of White House virus task force in quarantine
WASHINGTON — Two members of the White House coronavirus task force placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for...
Barack Obama lashes out at President Donald Trump in call with supporters
WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an “absolute chaotic disaster” during a conversation with ex-members of his administration, according to a recording obtained by Yahoo News. Obama also reacted to the Justice Department dropping its criminal case against Trump’s...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: The smart bet on electronic surveillance
“I’ll take Duquesne minus seven for a nickel.” With those words, spoken by gambler Charlie Katz in a phone booth on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965, Duquesne University’s basketball team came to play an inadvertent but key role in Katz v. U.S., the leading U.S. Supreme Court case...
Documents show top White House officials buried CDC report on reopening communities
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails obtained by The Associated Press. The files also show that after the AP...
Westmoreland County adds 2 new covid-19 cases, deaths remain at 32
Westmoreland County confirmed two more cases of covid-19 between Friday and Saturday, bringing the countywide total to 415, state health data show. The state has confirmed that at least 30 people in the county have died from the disease. Westmoreland County Coroner Ken Bacha, whose tally has been higher than...
Drug remdesivir being shipped to six states to help combat coronavirus
WASHINGTON — The federal government is sending supplies of the first drug that appears to help speed the recovery of some covid-19 patients to six states, where it will be distributed by health departments. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Saturday that it is delivering 140 cases...
US approves new coronavirus antigen test with fast results
U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up the country. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced emergency authorization for antigen tests developed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego. The test can rapidly detect fragments of...
Belarus holds Victory Day parade, disregarding coronavirus concerns
MINSK, Belarus — The eastern European nation of Belarus held a full-fledged military parade Saturday to mark Victory Day, shrugging off safety concerns during the coronavirus pandemic that led Russia to curtail its own long-planned 75th anniversary observances. Tens of thousands of spectators lined the parade route as some 3,000...
Pennsylvania reports 72 new covid-19 deaths; total coronavirus cases now top 55K
Pennsylvania reported 72 more deaths from covid-19 and more than 1,000 newly confirmed cases as of Saturday morning, pushing the statewide coronavirus case count above 55,000. Hospitals are treating 2,283 patients with the disease, and 482 of those patients are on ventilators. Another 20 patients are on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation,...
Some jobless workers still waiting for benefits as Western Pa. businesses look to reopen
Matt Kastner of Irwin has been waiting for almost two months for the day he can return to his job at a Blawnox music store, which has been closed since mid-March as part of Pennsylvania’s attempt to slow the spread of covid-19. “We haven’t received word when the store will...
Allegheny County reports 1 covid-19 death, 31 new cases
Another person in Allegheny County has died from covid-19, raising the death toll to 120, the Allegheny County Health Department said Saturday. Thirty-one more people were confirmed as having covid-19 or were probable over the past day, raising the total number on Saturday to 1,486 cases that were either confirmed...
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler: Pennsylvania deserves better
Pennsylvania’s fight against the covid-19 pandemic has upended its economy and rendered one in four workers jobless, all while putting our seniors in care homes at greater risk because of a serious policy flaw by Gov. Tom Wolf. In mid-March, the governor issued an executive order — he has run...
Lawns are the new wedding venue in the age of coronavirus
NEW YORK — Love in the age of coronavirus sometimes requires a lawn. Couples with dashed wedding plans due to lockdown restrictions have been tying the knot on those tidy green spreads instead, including at least one loaner. Danielle Cartaxo and Ryan Cignarella were supposed to get married in West...
Court halts ban on mass gatherings at Kentucky churches
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A federal court halted the Kentucky governor’s temporary ban on mass gatherings from applying to in-person religious services, clearing the way for Sunday church services. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove on Friday issued a temporary restraining order enjoining Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration from enforcing the...
‘It’s gone haywire’: When COVID-19 arrived in rural America
DAWSON, Ga. — The reverend approached the makeshift pulpit and asked the Lord to help him make some sense of the scene before him: two caskets, side by side, in a small-town cemetery busier now than ever before. Rev. Willard O. Weston had already eulogized other neighbors lost to COVID-19,...
State lawmakers say there is pain ahead as coronavirus restrictions begin to ease
State lawmakers say the social and economic pain from the coronavirus shutdown is not over and that there are still many questions as Southwestern Pennsylvania prepares to move from red to yellow zone status Friday. Gov. Tom Wolf, who imposed statewide stay-at-home orders as covid-19 cases began cropping up in...
Stuck on cruise ships during pandemic, crews beg to go home
MIAMI — Carolina Vásquez lost track of days and nights, unable to see the sunlight while stuck for two weeks in a windowless cruise ship cabin as a fever took hold of her body. On the worst night of her encounter with COVID-19, the Chilean woman, a line cook on...
Roy Horn, dark-haired half of flamboyant illusionists Siegfried & Roy, dies of complications related to coronavirus
Roy Horn, the dark-haired half of Siegfried & Roy, the flamboyant, German-born illusionists whose lavish stage productions and trademark disappearing white tigers and lions made them one of the biggest draws on the Las Vegas Strip, died Friday. He was 75. Horn, who suffered a severe wound to his neck...
Pennsylvania business owners worry about ability to bounce back from covid-19 lockdown
Bob Sodini’s small accounting firm in Harrison was in its busiest month of the year — tax filing season — when Gov. Tom Wolf imposed a statewide lockdown to thwart the spread of covid-19. With the doors closed to Sodini & Co.’s office on Freeport Road, the firm’s four employees...
