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State a broken record on cases

The day after breaking the record for the most COVID-19 cases reported in a single day, Ohio did it again. The state had 12,864 new cases reported Wednesday, the day after 12,502 cases were reported, according to the Ohio Department of Health. “With these numbers, we have a troubling picture — one that should be a wake-up call for all of Ohio,” Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, ODH director, said Wednesday. Before the past two days, the single-day record in Ohio was 11,885 cases on Nov. 23, 2020. The case and hospitalization numbers are particularly bad in the northern part of the ...

Search for a COVID-19 test means sold-out signs, long lines

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites to fight surging infections, but the stepped-up efforts will not come in time for people who want to find out if they are infected before the ...

Thu. 10:02 a.m.: US adds Merck pill as 2nd easy-to-use drug against COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators this morning authorized the second pill against COVID-19, providing another easy-to-use medication to battle the rising tide of omicron infections. The Food and Drug Administration authorization of Merck's molnupiravir comes one day after the agency ...

Thu. 9:51 a.m.: US jobless claims unchanged at 205,000

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at a historically low level that reflects the job market's strong recovery from the coronavirus recession last year. Jobless claims remained at 205,000, the U.S. Labor Department reported this ...

Thu. 9:34 a.m.: Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies say

Two new British studies provide some early hints that the omicron variant of the coronavirus may be milder than the delta version. Scientists stress that even if the findings of these early studies hold up, any reductions in severity need to be weighed against the fact omicron spreads much ...