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US court rejects maintaining COVID-19 asylum restrictions

REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — An appeals court on Friday rejected efforts by conservative states to maintain Trump-era asylum restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum. With the limits set to expire next week, thousands of migrants packed shelters on Mexico's border. The ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals means the restrictions remained on track to expire Wednesday, unless further appeals are filed. A coalition of 19 Republican-leaning states were pushing to keep the asylum restrictions that former President Donald Trump put in place at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. ...

US deaths fell this year

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. deaths dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit. Preliminary data — through the first 11 months of the year — indicates 2022 will see fewer deaths than the previous two COVID-19 pandemic years. Current reports suggest deaths may be down about 3% from 2020 and about 7% vs. 2021. U.S. deaths usually rise year-to-year, in part because the nation's population has been growing. The pandemic accelerated that trend, making last year the deadliest in U.S. history, with more than 3.4 million dying. If current ...

DIDHD: 2 new virus deaths in Dickinson

Local data Thursday showed two more deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Dickinson County, even as the pace of new confirmed cases in the area slowed in the past week. Dickinson County had 47 new confirmed positives since Dec. 1, eight fewer than the previous week, while Iron County had only ...

Wisconsin youth health survey shows stress up since COVID-19

MILWAUKEE (AP) — More than half of Wisconsin high school seniors surveyed in the fall of 2021 reported having significant problems with feeling very anxious, nervous, tense, scared or like something bad was going to happen, according to a health risk survey. Rising numbers of students also reported symptoms of depression, self-harm and thoughts of suicide, according to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey released Tuesday. The results are the first picture of Wisconsin students’ mental health since the onset of the pandemic, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The results ...

China eases anti-COVID measures following protests

BEIJING (AP) — China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to ...

DIDHD: 55 new COVID positives in Dickinson

Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County had 55 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the past 10 days, while Iron County had only 10 new cases. Dickinson County’s number was nine more than the previous report on Nov. 22, according to figures posted Thursday on the Dickinson-Iron District ...