[ad_1] CLIO, MI — Clio Area Schools students will now have the option to take their masks off after the Board of Education voted to remove the requirement from grades K-12. The school district moved from 155 positive COVID-19 cases and more than 600 probable cases two weeks ago to now just 22 confirmed COVID-19 […]
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[ad_1] CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Medical University of South Carolina says that new data shows the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has peaked in the Charleston Tri-County area. Officials with MUSC say Omicron hit a pandemic high of 416 cases per day per 100,000 people on Jan. 15. and the numbers have fallen since then. […]
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[ad_1] The large COVID-19 testing outfit at the center of a federal investigation will “wind down” its operations and lay off 150 employees, the company said Friday afternoon. Illinois-based Center for COVID Control has been the subject of an NBC Bay Area investigation for several weeks now. A statement from the company said one of […]
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[ad_1] HANCOCK — Driven by the arrival of the Omicron variant, COVID-19 cases have surged to pandemic highs. The first Omicron case in the western Upper Peninsula was confirmed less than a week ago, though it has been presumed to be here at least since the start of the month. As of Wednesday, […]
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[ad_1] Most of the school districts in the Charlottesville area are keeping their mask policies in place, citing state law and a legal challenge to an executive order concerning masking in schools. Only school systems in Greene, Madison and Orange counties have relaxed their mask policies following Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that says parents […]
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[ad_1] Predicting the future through sewage. That is how scientists have been doing for almost two years now to gauge the trajectory of the coronavirus. Wastewater has been used for decades to detect diseases and scientists say it’s become a critical tool in helping shape public health guidelines. Amit Mutsuddy runs the operation at the […]
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[ad_1] RACINE — With nearly half of Racine residents still not vaccinated against COVID-19, Mayor Cory Mason pleaded with the public to get vaccinated, noting that the pandemic has killed 44 people since Christmas. That’s twice as many deaths as the same period last year. Compared with previous outbreaks of the highly contagious virus that has brought […]
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[ad_1] “We’re still concerned about hospitalizations and deaths (particularly among the unvaccinated), since they tend to lag behind cases,” Viray said. If the trajectory of cases continues and new variables aren’t introduced, the Richmond area could see cases diminish through February, Viray added. She noted that the timing of the peak resembles the wave that […]
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