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Report: About a dozen students have symptoms of covid-19 at Liberty University
Around a dozen students at Liberty University in Virginia have reported being sick with symptoms that are consistent with covid-19, according to the New York Times. School President Jerry Falwell Jr. asked students to return to campus last week after spring break. Students returning to campus are now reportedly being...
S.E. Cupp: Trump can’t guide us through coronavirus, but conservatism can help
While many state governors are stepping up to meet the continuing challenges of coronavirus in unprecedented ways, our federal government continues to let us down. At the White House, we know the president took too long to act, dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic in the earliest days, spread misleading...
Trump adds 30 days to distancing guidelines as virus spreadsVideo
WASHINGTON — Bracing the nation for a grim death toll, President Donald Trump on Sunday extended the voluntary national shutdown for a month, bowing to public-health experts who told him the coronavirus pandemic could claim over 100,000 lives in the U.S., perhaps significantly more, if not enough is done to...
9 more residents of Beaver County nursing home diagnosed with covid-19
Nine more residents of a Beaver County nursing home tested positive for covid-19, said the home’s medical director. Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center started testing residents Friday, and 10 positive covid-19 cases were confirmed by Saturday morning. On Sunday, Dr. David Thimons, the center’s medical director, said there were another...
2 residents of St. Barnabas Nursing Home in Richland test positive for covid-19
Two residents at St. Barnabas Nursing Home in Richland are in quarantine after testing positive for covid-19, a spokesman confirmed Sunday. “They’re in a separate section of the building as well as separate rooms,” said Jim Lauteri, a spokesman with St. Barnabas Health System. St. Barnabas has five assisted-living facilities...
Editorial: Helping each other in pandemic
Bad situations can bring out the best in people. It can also bring out the worst. People are scared and unsure in the coronavirus pandemic. They don’t know what’s coming next on the economic roller coaster, and they are nervous about grocery shopping and opening doors. And let’s just admit...
School districts develop plans, implement online learning
Kiski Area School District, like many other districts, will begin teaching students remotely this week, relying on Google tools, email and the cooperation of parents to stream lectures and distribute assignments. It’s going to be a challenge, Superintendent Tim Scott said. But at this point, there are few options. “We’re...
Priest who serves in Pittsburgh’s Oakland-area grouping tests positive for covid-19
A priest who had been in isolation as a result of being exposed to someone else who tested positive for covid-19 has himself been diagnosed with the disease, the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh said. The Rev. Adam Potter, who served as an assistant priest for the parishes in the city’s...
Moscow orders residents to stay home as coronavirus spreadsVideo
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered residents to stay in their homes, warning that the spread of novel coronavirus in Europe’s largest capital city “has entered a new phase.” The Russian capital’s 12.7 million people were ordered to stay home starting Monday, with limited exceptions, in the strictest measures yet imposed...
Man dies in covid-19 outbreak at Maryland nursing homeVideo
MOUNT AIRY, Md. — A resident of a Maryland nursing home died after contracting covid-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained a short-handed staff, health officials said Sunday. A man in his 90s who was a resident at the Pleasant View Nursing Home...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ complaints spurred Trump’s scrapped New York ‘quarantine’ idea, report saysVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — President Trump’s scrapped plan to “quarantine” New York, New Jersey and Connecticut because of the coronavirus was in response to Gov. DeSantis’ complaints about New Yorkers coming to Florida, according to the Washington Post. DeSantis has been making the New York City area, currently the center of...
Counties across U.S. without coronavirus are mostly rural, poor
SANTA FE, N.M. — As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for covid-19 infections, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows...
6 additional covid-19 cases reported in Westmoreland County
Westmoreland County’s covid-19 case count rose by six overnight, as figures released Sunday by state health officials show 47 confirmed cases. That is up from 41 cases in figures released yesterday. There have been no deaths related to the virus in the county, which has been under a stay-at-home order...
Pennsylvania reports 4 more deaths, 643 new cases of coronavirus
Four more people in Pennsylvania have died from covid-19, increasing the statewide coronavirus death toll to 38, state health officials said Sunday at their daily briefing. The state reported 643 new cases of covid-19. A total of 3,394 residents had tested positive as of noon Sunday. Confirmed cases are now...
Gov. Wolf orders Beaver, Centre, Washington County residents to stay home
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf has extended his order for residents to stay at home in most circumstances to almost one-third of Pennsylvania’s counties amid an increase in coronavirus cases and a dozen more deaths that brought the total to 34 for the outbreak. The governor on Saturday extended the...
Allegheny County sees 46 new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 265
Allegheny County health officials reported an additional 46 cases of covid-19 Sunday morning. That figure is down from the 61 new cases reported from Friday to Saturday. In all, county health officials have confirmed 265 cases. The cases are split evenly between genders: 133 females and 132 males. The age...
Christopher Regan: Every American deserves a chance to live
Christopher Regan is an attorney with Bordas & Bordas in Pittsburgh, and the former vice chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party. It has been hard for a long time to say anything about politics that helps anyone with anything. If you say something to one side or the other,...
Specter of 100K-plus virus deaths as Trump seeks reopening
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump looks for ways to restore normalcy in parts of the U.S., his foremost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on...
Covid-19 pandemic provides ‘haunting’ parallel to deadly 1918 global flu infectionsVideo
Hauntingly similar. A little more than a century after a global influenza epidemic that cut a deadly path across Western Pennsylvania, that’s how Thomas Soltis describes the coronavirus pandemic that is spreading rapidly through much of Pennsylvania — having already killed 34 people in the state and more than 30,000...
Trump: No quarantine, but travel advisory for NY, CT and NJ
NORFOLK, Va. — President Trump backed away from calling for a quarantine for coronavirus hotspots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, instead directing Saturday night that a “strong Travel Advisory” be issued to stem the spread of the outbreak. Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that the CDC was urging...
Knicks owner, MSG chairman James Dolan has coronavirusVideo
James Dolan, the executive chairman of Madison Square Garden Company and owner of the New York Knicks, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The Knicks announced Dolan’s diagnosis Saturday night. It is not clear when he was tested or when he received the diagnosis. Dolan is the first U.S. major...
Pittsburgh Catholic diocese cancels all funeral Masses, weddings, baptisms due to coronavirus
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has canceled all funeral Masses, weddings and baptisms throughout the diocese after two priests in separate parish groupings were exposed to the coronavirus. The church announced Saturday night that the Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) services that have taken place in churches or church parking lots...
Beaver County nursing home confronts covid-19 outbreak; at least 10 residents infected
A Beaver County nursing home is scrambling to contain an outbreak of covid-19 that has infected at least 10 residents, officials said Saturday. The Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center began testing residents Friday night, and the first several results came back negative, the center’s leaders said in a statement. Results...
U.S. coronavirus deaths double in 2 days, topping 2,000
Confirmed coronavirus-related deaths in the United States doubled in two days, surpassing 2,000 Saturday and highlighting how quickly the virus is spreading through the country. Johns Hopkins University reported that confirmed deaths rose to more than 30,000 around the world. The U.S. ranked sixth in deaths, after Italy, Spain, China,...
Pittsburgh Brookline elementary school staffer tests positive for covid-19
A staff member at Pittsburgh Brookline elementary school has tested positive for covid-19, district officials said Saturday. The person is believed to have contracted the highly contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus outside of school grounds, Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said. School officials alerted all families and...
