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By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Allegheny County Health Department is reporting 403 new Coronavirus cases and no additional deaths. READ MORE: COVID-19 In Pennsylvania: State Health Department Reports 5,060 New Cases, 44 Additional Deaths Of the newly reported cases, the Health Department says 296 are confirmed and 107 are probable cases. The Health Department says new cases range in age from two months to 95 years with a median age of 31 years. READ MORE: Pennsylvania Woman Among Cases Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Blood Clots There have been 6,358 total hospitalizations and 92,788 total coronavirus cases in Allegheny County since the pandemic started. The county-wide death toll stands at 1,828. MORE NEWS: York Mother Cierra Allen Accused Of Stabbing 5-Year-Old Daughter More information on the Coronavirus pandemic: CDC Coronavirus Information CDC Global Map of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Pennsylvania Department of Health … [Read more...] about COVID-19 In Pittsburgh: Allegheny Co. Health Dept. Reports 403 New Cases, No Additional Deaths

By: KDKA-TV News Staff HARRISBURG (KDKA) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health is reporting 5,060 new Coronavirus cases and 44 additional deaths. READ MORE: Pennsylvania Woman Among Cases Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Blood Clots This brings the statewide total to 1,092,852 cases and 25,566 total COVID-19 related deaths since the pandemic began. There are 2,580 people across the state in the hospital with COVID-19 and 542 patients are in ICUs. The state says 6,736,568 vaccine doses have been administered so far, and 2,555,581 people are fully vaccinated. All Pennsylvanians 16 or older are eligible to get vaccinated. READ MORE: York Mother Cierra Allen Accused Of Stabbing 5-Year-Old Daughter If you have concerns about the virus, you can check out the state’s COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard There are 4,259,382 individuals who have tested negative for COVID-19 to date. There have been 70,019 cases among residents and 14,545 cases among … [Read more...] about COVID-19 In Pennsylvania: State Health Department Reports 5,060 New Cases, 44 Additional Deaths

All eyes are on Michigan as the state endures a surge of COVID-19 cases, underscoring how fatigue with coronavirus restrictions, and political divisions, have disrupted the response to the pandemic across the country. More than a year after the start of the pandemic, Michigan has evolved into a hot spot for COVID-19, recording a seven-day average of 7,377 new cases and 3,570 hospitalizations in the past week, according to The New York Times. The state is also home to nine of the top 10 cities with the highest rate of cases per 100,000 people over the last two weeks. ADVERTISEMENT Amid the new surge, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Gretchen Whitmer Watch live: Whitmer provides update on COVID-19 in Michigan Multiple GOP Michiganders test positive for COVID-19 after district meeting White House on Whitmer's handling of pandemic: She's shown 'serious' grit MORE (D) has avoided instituting new lockdowns after receiving backlash from Republicans and … [Read more...] about Michigan’s spike highlights fatigue over restrictions

close Video Biden scraps Trump plan on opioids treatment A panel on 'America's Newsroom' discusses the Biden administration decision to roll back a Trump administration measure for treating opioid addiction in the United States. As the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly inflamed what already was one of the country’s greatest public health crises: drug addiction . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 87,000 people died of drug overdoses in the 12 months ending in September 2020 — the latest figures available. That toll is the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a year, since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s, The New York Times reported. Overdose deaths were seen dropping slightly in 2018 for the first time in decades. COLORADO AUCTIONING WEED-THEMED LICENSE PLATE TO RAISE MONEY FOR DISABILITY FUND Nationally the CDC has … [Read more...] about Drug overdose deaths have surged during pandemic, CDC data shows

The Biden administration, with Planned Parenthood ally Xavier Becerra at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced Wednesday its plans to reverse the Trump administration’s Protect Life Rule, which created a clear boundary between abortion and family planning. The announcement of the proposed rule, titled “Ensuring access to equitable, affordable, client-centered, quality family planning services,” said HHS intends to return to the Title X family planning regulations first enacted by the Clinton administration in 2000: HHS proposes to revise the rules issued on March 4, 2019 (84 FR 7714), establishing standards for compliance by family planning services projects authorized by Title X of the Public Health Service Act. Those rules have undermined the public health of the population the program is meant to serve. The Department proposes to revise the 2019 rules by readopting the 2000 regulations (65 FR 41270), with several modifications needed to … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Bows to Planned Parenthood: Plans Reversal of Trump Abortion Rule