From California to Pennsylvania, governors and mayors across the country are ratcheting up COVID-19 restrictions amid the record-shattering resurgence of the virus that is expected to get worse because of holiday travel and family gatherings over Thanksgiving. Leaders are closing businesses or curtailing hours and other operations and they are ordering or imploring people to [...]
WASHINGTON — The two attorneys representing the first woman scheduled to be put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades are seeking to delay her execution because they've contracted coronavirus visiting their client. The lawyers for Lisa Montgomery — who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 8 [...]
YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Rick Patrick wears a mask and thinks those who don't are "asinine." He rarely leaves his home. He disapproves of what he calls the "stupidity" of people gathering in crowds. But Patrick, 64, won't stop eating breakfast at his favorite restaurant in Yuba City even though it's supposed to be [...]
ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be. What puzzles him are the people who have curtailed so much of their lives to avoid being infected by the virus. "I'm not going out and looking to catch it," he said, sitting at a cluttered desk in [...]
Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters on Election Day have tested positive for the coronavirus, including more than two dozen in Missouri and others in New York, Iowa, Indiana and Virginia. The infections cannot be tied definitively to polling places. Because COVID-19 is spreading [...]
When a central Ohio kindergartner visits the school nurse with a sore throat and a second-grader at another area elementary school in the district goes home after a bad cough sets in, those details are entered into a special COVID-19 system developed at Ohio State. The COVID-19 Analytics and Targeted Surveillance System, or CATS, was [...]
School systems in Detroit, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and suburban Minneapolis are giving up on in-person classes, and some governors are reimposing restrictions on bars and restaurants or getting more serious about masks, as the coast-to-coast resurgence of the coronavirus sends deaths, hospitalizations and new infections soaring. The crisis deepened at hospitals, with the situation so bad [...]
With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in the country’s history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who's first in line and ensure that people who get the initial shot return for the necessary second [...]
A safe Thanksgiving during a pandemic is possible, but health experts know their advice is as tough to swallow as dry turkey: Stay home. Don't travel. If you must gather, do it outdoors. With a fall surge of coronavirus infections gripping the country, many Americans are forgoing tradition and getting creative with celebrations. For the [...]
Pfizer's surprising news that its COVID-19 vaccine might offer more protection than anticipated — an announcement right after a fraught U.S. presidential election campaign — is raising questions about exactly how the different shots will make it to market. Pfizer Inc. and the maker of the other leading U.S. vaccine candidate, Moderna Inc., have been [...]