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S.E. Cupp: De Blasio’s parade & failures
On Tuesday night, I called to check in on my friends in San Francisco. One is a lawyer; his grandfather died this month. His partner is a doctor on the front lines of covid-19. In short, they’ve been through it. I asked the doctor, “How is work?” “Thank God we’re...
No more bodies on the streets. But coronavirus batters Ecuador with disproportionate forceVideo
QUITO, Ecuador — The grisly scenes of bodies left on the streets of the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil seemed dystopian even in the era of coronavirus. “This peaceful city received a bomb from the air, like Hiroshima,” Guayaquil Mayor Cynthia Viteri told a TV interviewer last week. The shocking images...
States stockpile drug touted by Trump despite doctors’ warnings
SALT LAKE CITY — State and local governments across the United States have obtained about 30 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Trump to treat patients with the coronavirus, despite warnings from doctors more research is needed. At least 22 states and Washington, D.C., secured shipments of...
Louisiana pastor Tony Spell defies house arrest, again holds service during pandemic
CENTRAL, La. — A Louisiana pastor held services in his church Sunday, defying house arrest orders that followed an assault charge related to his decision to hold mass gatherings in defiance of public health orders during the coronavirus pandemic. A livestream from Life Tabernacle Church showed Tony Spell walking among...
Pittsburgh Public Schools alerts staff and families to potential case of covid-19
Pittsburgh Public Schools staff and families are receiving a phone message warning of a potential case of covid-19 affecting a staff volunteer. The volunteer assisted with the distribution of laptops and instructional packets at Pittsburgh Milliones in the Hill District. According to the phone message, the district was notified that...
White House aiming for Trump pivot from virus to economy
WASHINGTON — After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the injection of toxic disinfectants...
Census delay could put off new voting districts, primaries
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Census Bureau needs more time to wrap up the once-a-decade count because of the coronavirus, opening the possibility of delays in drawing new legislative districts that could help determine what political party is in power, what laws pass or fail and whether communities of...
Cuomo: Virus deaths drop below 400 for 1st time this monthVideo
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the 367 deaths from the coronavirus he reported Sunday were “horrific,” but the number was less than half the nearly 800 deaths that occurred in a single day during the pandemic’s peak in New York. It is the first time this...
Lawmakers warn coronavirus contact-tracing ripe for abuse
WASHINGTON — It is a big promise from Silicon Valley to a nation looking for ways to be freed from home confinement: Smartphones could discreetly detect those who may have covid-19 and nudge them to quarantine, blunting renewed outbreaks as Americans start to venture out. But as tech firms lay...
14 new cases, no new deaths reported in Westmoreland County
Westmoreland County saw 14 new cases of covid-19 as of Sunday, but no new deaths related to the virus, data provided by state and local officials show. The county’s total number of covid-19 cases reached 374 on Sunday, up from the 360 cases reported on Saturday. The death total reported...
Pitt streams virtual commencement for Class of Covid-19
The promise of “Pomp and Circumstance” remained Sunday, even as the University of Pittsburgh honored nearly 8,000 graduates in a virtual commencement. Families near and far gathered before screens to mark the day with newly minted graduates — now members of the Class of Covid-19 — and listened as Pitt...
Pennsylvania reports 13 new coronavirus deaths; total cases climb over 41K
Thirteen more people in Pennsylvania have died from covid-19, bringing the statewide death total to 1,550, state health officials announced Sunday. The health department reported 1,116 additional positive cases of covid-19 from Saturday to Sunday, bringing the number of positive cases to 41,165. People in all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties...
Allegheny County reports no new deaths from covid-19 on Sunday
The Allegheny County Health Department on Sunday reported no additional covid-19 deaths and only 13 new confirmed or probable cases of the illness. Officials, however, were reluctant to declare that viral infections have peaked. A spokeswoman for the Allegheny County Health Department noted that there are often delays in reporting...
Farms scramble for answers as coronavirus threatens workers
HANOVER, Pa. — In farming, there are many unknowns. The economy, weather and customer demand can affect crops and ultimately a farmer’s bottom line. This year the agricultural industry was thrown a curve ball with covid-19. Now as harvest season approaches, farmers are facing new questions about the availability of...
How Pittsburgh’s polio vaccine triumph could shape race to end coronavirus pandemic
Peter Salk still remembers the trepidation he felt when his father came home from work one day in May 1953 and promptly began boiling a set of needles and syringes on the kitchen stove. With several years of research and promising results in monkeys fueling high hopes, Dr. Jonas Salk...
UK’s Boris Johnson to return to Downing Street office on Monday
Britain’s Boris Johnson will return to work on Monday and take charge of the U.K.’s handling of the pandemic, a month after he was struck down by the coronavirus. The government has been without a leader since the prime minister was admitted to a London hospital on April 5. Since...
Pittsburgh Public Schools offers 4th-quarter grading options, public input sought by noon Tuesday
Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet is looking for feedback from the broader school community on two options for fourth-quarter grading guidelines. Two new options were developed following school board input Wednesday to present changes to the grading guidelines due to the covid-19 pandemic. In response to the state mandate...
Fauci urges careful science on coronavirus drugs
Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging careful science to prove whether any of the drugs being explored as covid-19 treatments actually work. Fauci, infectious diseases chief at the National Institutes of Health, said Saturday during an online meeting of the National Academy of Sciences that the only way to get an...
Fights to resume in Nicaragua because ‘boxers have to eat’Video
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Boxing was set to resume in Nicaragua on Saturday with a televised eight-fight card in front of a live audience in Managua. The threat of the coronavirus was dismissed by promoter Rosendo Álvarez, the former two-time world champion. “Here we don’t fear the coronavirus, and there is...
New York opens antibody testing to healthcare, front line workers
NEW YORK — New York is starting to test healthcare workers for coronavirus antibodies and will do the same next week with transit and law enforcement workers as the state eases away from the worst days of the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, Doctors, nurses and other employees at...
Naval destroyer USS Kidd reports rise in coronavirus cases to 33
WASHINGTON — The Navy reports that the number of sailors aboard the USS Kidd confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus has nearly doubled, rising from 18 on Friday to 33. The destroyer, with its crew of 350, is off the Pacific coast of South America. Its current mission...
Hospital ship offloads few remaining patients before NY exit
NEW YORK — The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of its mission, according to Northwell Health, which provides operational assistance to the vessel....
Cuomo on coronavirus sacrifices: ‘What you’re doing is actually saving lives’
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday acknowledged frustration with coronavirus stay-home orders that have kept his state’s residents largely restricted to their homes for nearly two months, but he compared them to past generations’ sacrifices during prior national crises. “It’s been 56 long days,” Cuomo said at his daily...
North Huntingdon sisters will run 26 miles, an hour at a timeVideo
Sisters Mara and Magen Polczynski usually jog together every day. But, with about 24 hours of planning, they’re shooting for something a little more challenging — running 26 miles over 26 hours. They started at 6 p.m. Friday with an easy jog down a sunny suburban street, and plan to...
2 more die of covid-19 at Glen Hazel nursing home, outbreak grows to 93 cases
Two more residents of Allegheny County’s nursing home in Pittsburgh’s Glen Hazel neighborhood have died of covid-19, bringing the facility’s death toll to nine as officials scramble to contain the outbreak, county health data show. Another 60 residents and 33 employees at the Glen Hazel location have tested positive for...
