As restaurants and bars find ways to navigate business during the coronavirus pandemic, Allegheny County announced it’s plans to launch a 10-member COVID-19 field response team to enforce mitigation orders.At The Vault Taproom on Pittsburgh’s South Side along East Carson Street, there are signs to remind customers to wear a mask and social distance. Assistant…
Tarrant County public health reported 871 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a record-high for the county in one day. The previous record-high number of new cases set in one day was set back on July 15 with 857 cases. Six additional deaths related to COVID-19 were reported Wednesday. That brings the total number of deaths…
On Wednesday, Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer reported 3,266 new coronavirus cases in the region for a total of 164,870 cases. Ferrer said the 7-day average of daily new infections has more than doubled in the past month. The daily positivity rate of new tests is now 8.5 percent. “This week, I believe,…
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) – The Hamilton County Health Department released new guidelines that reduced the recommended isolation period following a positive COVID-19 test. These recommendations are based on if the patient has been fever-free at least 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications and other symptoms have improved. The guidelines are based on new…
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…