The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and federal regulators this morning decided they're also ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's newly sworn-in mayor insisted this morning that schools would open for in-person learning despite an omicron-fueled surge in COVID-19 infections, saying administrative staffers would pinch-hit for absent teachers. "Where we see a drop in staffing we're going ...
A winter storm packing heavy snow was blowing into the nation's capital this morning, closing government offices and schools. As much as 10 inches of snow was forecast for the District of Columbia, northern Virginia and central Maryland through the afternoon. The National Weather Service ...
Although it looked for a while that Ohio, and the nation, finally was emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, the year ended with record-high case numbers because of new variants of the virus. As Ohio enters 2022, there are no signs of the virus letting up. Until this month, January had the ...
Ohio again shattered its record for the most COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents. And that doesn’t even count those who tested positive with at-home kits and didn’t see a doctor or go to a hospital. It was the third straight week with record high COVID-19 cases per 100,000. The 1,364.7 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Dec. 16 and Wednesday is up from 1,009.6 cases last week, according to Ohio Department of Health data reported Thursday. It’s an increase of 35 percent in a week and 254 percent from what it was five weeks ago. Almost 1.4 out of ...
The number of COVID-19 cases rose at several Mahoning County nursing homes this week; at the same time, the number of cases rose dramatically among the general population in Ohio. The biggest surge among Mahoning County nursing homes was at the Canfield Acres LLC Windsor House at Canfield nursing home on state Route 446. The Ohio Department of Health indicated on its website that Canfield Acres had no COVID-19 cases last week but said it has 21 cases this week — 11 among patients and 10 among staff. The Greenbriar Center nursing home in Boardman has had high case numbers for ...
