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Federal jobless benefits expire

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of jobless Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of economic support programs for those who are still being hit financially by the year-and-a-half-old coronavirus pandemic. Two critical programs expired on Monday. One provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers and another provided benefits to those who have been unemployed more than six months. Further, the Biden administration's $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit also ran out on Monday. It's estimated that roughly 8.9 million Americans will lose ...

Millions to lose jobless aid in US

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Taboniar went 15 months without a paycheck, thanks to the COVID pandemic. A housekeeper at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in Honolulu, the single mother of two saw her income completely vanish as the virus devastated the hospitality industry. For more than a year, ...

State: UP has 159 more virus cases, 14 in Iron County

State data Friday showed 159 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula in the past two days — including 14 in Iron County — as the level of COVID-19 activity in the region continues to rise. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday ...

Evers extends $100 incentive for virus vaccinations

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s $100 reward program for those receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will be extended two weeks until Sept. 19, Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday. Also, the state’s second-highest ranking health official who has been the public face for fighting the pandemic announced she is retiring in a week. The departure of Julie Willems Van Dijk, 61, means that the state’s two top health officials at the start of the pandemic in 2020 have now left. Extending the $100 incentive, which began Aug. 20 and was originally scheduled to end on Monday, will give an ...

Efforts grow to stamp out use of parasite drug for COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19, warning it can cause harmful side effects and that there’s little evidence it helps. With a fourth wave of infections, more Americans are turning to ivermectin, a cheap drug used to kill worms and other parasites in humans and animals. Federal health officials have seen a surge in prescriptions this summer, accompanied by worrying increases in reported overdoses. The drug was even given to inmates at a jail in northwest Arkansas for ...

DIDHD: 31 confirmed new virus cases in Iron; Dickinson has 14 more

Local health officials Thursday afternoon reported 31 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Iron County in the past week, while Dickinson County added 14 more cases. In addition to the new confirmed positives, the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department in its Facebook post listed 50 new ...