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As COVID cases climb again, officials say a third of US should be considering masks

WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States — and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions. Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the ...

COVID deaths reach 1 million

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s as if Boston and Pittsburgh were wiped out. “It is hard to imagine a million people plucked from this earth,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, who leads a new pandemic center at the Brown University School of Public Health in ...

Local data: New virus death in Dickinson, 32 positives

Local health officials Friday reported another death attributed to COVID-19 in Dickinson County since May 5, along with 32 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and 14 in Iron County in the same time period. Dickinson County also had 11 probable virus cases since May 5, ...

About 1M COVID deaths: A look at the US numbers

Doug Lambrecht was among the first of the roughly 1 million Americans to die from COVID-19. His demographic profile — an older white male with chronic health problems — mirrors the faces of many who would be lost over the next two years. The 71-year-old retired physician was recovering ...

Nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths

Doug Lambrecht was among the first of the nearly 1 million Americans to die from COVID-19. His demographic profile — an older white male with chronic health problems — mirrors the faces of many who would be lost over the next two years. The 71-year-old retired physician was recovering from a fall at a nursing home near Seattle when the new coronavirus swept through in early 2020. He died March 1, an early victim in a devastating outbreak that gave a first glimpse of the price older Americans would pay. The pandemic has generated gigabytes of data that make clear which U.S. groups ...

Local data shows new virus death in Iron and Dickinson

Local health officials Thursday reported another death attributed to COVID-19 in both Dickinson and Iron counties in the past week, along with 21 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and five in Iron County in the same time period. Dickinson County also had 14 probable virus ...