Beth Nakamura/StaffBy Staff | The Oregonian/OregonLiveThis story is breaking and will be updated.During a morning press call, Oregon Health Authority Director Pat Allen shared that the state tallied nine coronavirus deaths on Friday -- a record high for its daily reporting.Allen also said the state has recorded another 396 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 cases,…
17 additional deaths in Northeast Florida counties makes 57 in last 6 daysCOVID-19 antibody tests now available in Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With nine additional deaths -- a single-day high -- reported in Friday’s data from the Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville has now eclipsed 120 coronavirus-related deaths -- and nearly a quarter of those…
PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County saw a spike in COVID-19 cases with 198 new positive cases, 22 new hospitalizations, and 2 additional deaths reported Friday, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. The 22 new hospitalizations in the last 24 hours are the highest Allegheny County has seen since the pandemic began. Have questions about the…
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts rose by 16 to 8,265, state officials said Thursday. The number of confirmed cases climbed by 270, bringing the total to 107,683, as key metrics the state uses to monitor its phased reopening held generally steady.The state reported no new probable-case deaths, keeping that total at…
MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - For the second time in three days, Wisconsin received more than 1,000 tests that were positive for the coronavirus.The state received 14,212 tests during the 24-hour period ending Thursday morning, and 1,052 were positive. That’s 7.4%.That’s comparable to Tuesday, when the state had a record 1,117 positive results from 14,488 tests,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…