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Covid-19

DIDHD: Dickinson has 101 new confirmed virus cases in past week

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, ...

UP virus surge in September continues

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 ...

Biden bets on rapid COVID tests but they can be hard to find

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 ...

COVID has killed about as many Americans as influenza in 1918-19

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 by ...

Kleefisch tests positive for COVID-19

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 ...

State: 282 more virus positives in UP, 48 in Dickinson

State data Friday showed 282 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday, including 48 cases in Dickinson County and 30 in Menominee County. For the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday also listed 67 new ...