State data Wednesday showed only three confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and one in Iron County in a week’s time. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday added 73 confirmed positives to the Upper Peninsula’s tally since April 6: ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New data shows a sharp increase in Type 2 diabetes among children in Wisconsin and doctors think COVID-19 could be a factor. Figures from UW Health Kids shows a nearly 200% increase in the number of cases over the last several years. Dr. Elizabeth Mann is a pediatric endocrinologist and director of the Type 2 Diabetes Program at UW Health Kids. Mann says it’s a trend medical experts have noticed for years, but it’s taken a worrisome turn recently. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve just seen a sharp increase beyond what we had expected,” ...
The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars. Cabinet members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Broadway actors and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut have all tested positive. Outbreaks at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University are bringing back mask requirements to those campuses as officials seek out quarantine space. The known infections likely reveal only the tip of the iceberg — with actors and politicians ...
Local data Thursday indicated COVID-19 activity remains quiet, with only two new confirmed positives in Dickinson County — but another death attributed to the virus as well — while Iron County had one new case in a week’s time. Dickinson County also recorded one probable case and had ...
State data Wednesday showed no new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Iron County since Friday and actually dropped Dickinson County’s count by one. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday added 37 confirmed positives to the Upper Peninsula’s tally ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an industry whose failures have been spotlighted by the pandemic. To anyone who saw the scourge of COVID-19 on the country’s most vulnerable, the findings of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine might seem sobering but unsurprising, as the long-term care system's inadequacies were made plain by more than 150,000 ...
