Month: August 2020

The World Health Organization says non-essential, routine dental work should be put off to help cut transmission of the coronavirus. The World Health Organization is urging the public to avoid routine dental work or aesthetic treatments during the coronavirus pandemic if transmission rates are high in their area. It says the nature of such visits to the dentist can increase the risk of spreading the virus "WHO advises that routine non-essential oral health care – which usually includes oral health check-ups, dental cleanings and preventive care – be delayed until there has been sufficient reduction in COVID-19 transmission rates from community transmission to cluster cases or according ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Two more Onondaga County residents have died of coronavirus, raising the county’s death toll from the pandemic to 203. The county reported the residents were men, one in his 80s and the other in his 90s, both with underlying health conditions. The county also reported 18 new positive cases among 3,628 test results received since Tuesday. Authorities were unable to pinpoint the source of 11 of those cases. Four cases were household contacts of previously confirmed cases, two cases were travel-related (Pennsylvania), and one case was from a senior living facility. Overall, there have been 3,480 positive cases in Onondaga County since the pandemic began. Sixteen people were hospitalized for coronavirus today, unchanged from Tuesday. Three of them are in critical condition. ...

Bonneville County Sheriff Paul Wilde announces COVID19 cases at the Bonneville County Jail. | Eric Grossarth, EastIdahoNews.com IDAHO FALLS — Almost every inmate in a single pod at the Bonneville County Jail tested positive for COVID-19. Bonneville County Sheriff Paul J. Wilde made the announcement Wednesday at a news conference. Wilde says last week, an inmate wasn’t feeling well and asked to be tested. Medical staff performed the test and on Friday, a lab returned a positive result for coronavirus. Everyone in his pod was tested Monday and of the 35 inmates held in the unit, 34 received positive results Tuesday night. “Procedures to keep that particular housing unit isolated and minimize contamination from other parts of the jail as much as possible were immediately implemen...

GREAT FALLS — The Goldstone Assisted Living facility at 5200 9th Avenue South in Great Falls said today that it was recently notified of "multiple" positive COVID-19 cases among its residents and staff. The news release did not indicate how many cases have been confirmed. On August 4th, the City-County Health Department said it had identified an outbreak of six COVID-19 cases in connection with a long-term care facility in Cascade County, but due to privacy regulations, did not release the name or location of the facility. MTN News has asked Goldstone whether it is the facility involved in the August 4th announcement, but we have not yet received a response. To date, there have been 167 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cascade County; of those, 55 are currently active, 108 have recovered, a...

TY: I AM TY STEELE. DEIRDRE: I AM DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. HERE ARE OUR TOP HEADLINES. TY: OFFICIALS IN RUSSIA SAYS PHASE THREE TRIALS OF THE NEW VACCINE WILL START TODAY. THE COUNTRY IS PLANNING A LARGE VACCINATION CAMPAIGN COME OCTOBER. DEIRDRE: GERMANY’S HEALTH MINISTER IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE RISING NUMBERS OF INFECTIONS. HE SAYS SMALLER AND BIGGER OUTBREAKS HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN ALMOST ALL REGIONS. INFECTIONS WERE DRIVEN BY TRAVELERS RETURNING FROM ABROAD AND FROM PEOPLE PARTYING OR GETTING TOGETHER. TY: SEVERAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS BEGAN DISTANCE-LEARNING TODAY. THEY INCLUDE FOLSOM-CORDOVA, ROSEVILLE, CERES, SALIDA, TURLOCK, ESCALON, GOLD TRAIL, AND LIVE OAK. FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, AFTER SEEING A SPIKE YESTERDAY, THERE WERE LESS THAN 5000 NEW CASES REPORTED OVER THE PAST DAY...