Month: August 2020

A wedding reception in Maine has caused 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus and counting. Nearly half of those cases include people who didn't go to the wedding, Maine's CDC reported. It's not clear whether people wore masks at the event, but the venue exceeded the state's indoor limit of 50 people. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. A wedding reception in Millinocket, Maine, led to 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.  One woman who did not attend the event died on Friday after being infected with COVID-19 after coming in close contact with a guest, the Portland Press Herald reported.  Sixty-five people went to the August 7 reception, which was largely indoors, Maine's CDC director ...

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The Las Vegas Strip is now a "hotspot" in more ways than one. Where before it was considered a top tourist destination, Las Vegas is gaining a new reputation as ground zero for COVID superspreader events. According to the Harvard Global Health COVID-19 tracker, Nevada currently has the third-highest concentration of coronavirus cases in the nation. The vast majority of those cases are in Clark County, which houses Las Vegas—meaning the bulk of the state's 65,150 cases and 1,197 deaths have taken place within city limits. A new study published by the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica looked at anonymized cell phone records of 26,000 individuals in Las Vegas and found that within four days' time, at least 8,000...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Department of Health Services has received results of more than 4,800 coronavirus tests on Sunday. Out of the 4,814 tests, 453 had a positive result, bringing the statewide total of positive tests since testing began on February 5 to 70,462. The percentage of positive tests on Sunday is 9.4%, a decrease from Saturday’s percentage of 10.9%., continuing an upward trend looking over the past 14 days. With no new deaths listed in Sunday’s report, the death toll remains at 1,081 in Wisconsin, which equals 1.5%, a percentage that has held steady since Friday. For a week and a half before that, it had held steady at 1.6%. 55 out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties reported an increase of cases, while Michigan’s Upper Peninsula saw an increase in six out of 15 counties. For com...