Month: September 2020

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By Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is among the biggest critics of Gov. Roy Cooper’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a Republican who’s running against Cooper, says kids should be allowed to go to school. Currently, students in kindergarten through 12th grade are only allowed to attend in-person classes in some counties — and only at a reduced capacity. In an interview posted Sept. 2, Forest said Cooper’s restrictions on in-person learning aren’t necessary. “There’s no evidence anywhere in the world that our kids should not be in schools. There’s no evidence of that anywhere. All evidence points to the fact that our kids are 17 times more likely to have ...

Four counties — Cecil, Prince George’s, Wicomico and Worcester — have positivity rates above the recommended 5%, the state reported Monday. Cecil County’s rate was 5.63%, Prince George’s was 5.66%, Wicomico’s was 5.50% and Worcester’s was 6.39%, the state reported.

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Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. College students in Utah County are driving a spike in new coronavirus cases that is now “clear” after several days of rising numbers, state health officials said Monday. “We are experiencing a clear upward trend in case counts right now,” Dr. Angela Dunn, the state epidemiologist, wrote in a news statement. “This trend is being driven, in large part, by an increase in cases among college-aged young adults in Utah County.” With 563 new coronavirus cases reported Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses stayed abov...

The number of daily coronavirus hospitalizations in L.A. County continues to decline, but the region is not quite ready to move forward in the reopening process, officials noted. As of Monday, there are 775 people hospitalized with COVID-19, a decline from just one day earlier. “This number was over 1,000 just a couple of weeks ago and has dropped down similar to the numbers seen in April,” county public health officials said in a news release Sunday. “The decreasing number of daily hospitalizations is an important indicator because it is an accurate representation of how many people are currently seriously ill from the virus.” But while coronavirus figures have fallen back to pre-surge levels, officials reminded residents that the respiratory illness is still e...