State data Friday showed 237 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday, including 28 cases in Dickinson County and 23 in Menominee County. Across the border in Wisconsin, Marinette County had 37 more confirmed positives Friday to add a total of 175 new cases in a ...
Local health officials late Thursday morning reported 101 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past week, plus 54 probable cases, bringing the county’s total number of active coronavirus cases to 537. Iron County has added 18 new confirmed positives since Sept. 16, ...
State data shows the Upper Peninsula already has had more than 2,000 new COVID-19 confirmed positives in September, exceeding what was added in the previous three months combined. The Upper Peninsula entered June with 19,988 confirmed cases among its 15 counties and started September at ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country. But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy shelves in many parts of the U.S., and manufacturers warn it will take them weeks to ramp up production, after scaling it back amid plummeting demand over the summer. The latest shortage is another painful reminder that the U.S. has yet to successfully manage its COVID-19 testing arsenal, let alone ...
COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Rebecca Kleefisch tested positive for COVID-19 after being exposed at church earlier this month, her campaign said Monday. Kleefisch is a cancer survivor and a former two-term lieutenant governor. She is seeking to take on ...
