State data Friday showed another death blamed on COVID-19 in Dickinson County, even as the spread of the virus in the Upper Peninsula appears to be ebbing. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated 348 new confirmed positives in the ...
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina. The milestone comes more than 13 months into a vaccination drive that has been beset by misinformation and political and legal strife, though the shots have proved safe and highly effective at preventing serious illness and death. “It is an astronomically high number. If ...
Local data Thursday showed a significant decline in the numbers of new COVID-19 positives in Dickinson and Iron counties over the past week, even as the death toll blamed on the virus rose in both counties. The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department on Thursday confirmed earlier figures ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — COVID-19 could become endemic by the end of the year, Wisconsin's top medical officer said Thursday. Department of Health Services Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ryan Westergaard still warned that case counts could periodically spike but the disease likely will reach a stage in 2022 where case numbers remain fairly constant. Westergaard's remarks come as a surge in Wisconsin case numbers driven by the omicron variant continues to subside. Wisconsin's seven-day case average stood at 4,679 as of Thursday, down from 18,857 on Jan. 19. According to the Wisconsin ...
State health statistics have listed five more deaths blamed on COVID-19 in Iron County. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday indicated 13 more virus-related deaths in the Upper Peninsula: the five in Iron County; two in Chippewa ...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that 90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago — amounting to more than in all of 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. With many countries easing their restrictive measures amid public fatigue about them, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyeus cautioned that omicron should not be underestimated even though it has shown to bring less severe illness than earlier variants — and cited "a very worrying increase in deaths in most regions ...
