Month: January 2021

Santa Barbara County on Sunday continued to experience an alarming rise in daily COVID-19 cases, with a record-shattering 779 new virus-related infections reported. Sunday marked by far the highest single-day number of new COVID-19 cases since the county's first positive case in March. The previous high was 512 cases three days prior, on Jan. 7. No new COVID-19 deaths were reported in the county on Sunday. The county’s overall positive case total rose to 21,323, and the cumulative death toll remained at 197. Updated COVID-19 h...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's stay-at-home advisory will be extended by nearly two weeks to help continue to limit the spread of the virus, the mayor's office announced Sunday. Back in November, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, along with the Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago, Dr. Allison Arwardy, advised all Chicago residents to stay at home in response to the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the city. The re-issued advisory will take effect Jan. 10 for another 12 days, according to city officials. Stay at Home Advisory Residents are advised to only leave their home to go to work or school, or for essential needs -- such as medical care, going to the grocery store or pharmacy, picking up food, or receiving deliveries. City and health officials also advise anyone who d...

We're making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. No new deaths were reported Sunday. In total, 223 Alaskans and one nonresident with COVID-19 have died since the pandemic reached the state in March. Alaska’s death rate per capita is among the lowest in the country, though the state’s size and vulnerable health care system complicate national comparisons. By Sunday, 76 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized and another six people in the hospitals were suspected to have the virus. The state’s daily case counts have fallen si...

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The rampaging coronavirus is revealing new unpredictability as the promised post-holiday surge continues apace, with some hospitals now seeing an uptick in patients sick with COVID-19 who had no underlying medical conditions, officials say. Hospitals in the Bay Area and beyond are seeing an increase in such patients, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert with UCSF, said Sunday. “It’s not just people in nursing homes or people who are ill with immuno-compromising conditions who are the ones getting sick,” Chin-Hong said. “With COVID, it’s an equal opportunity disease, in some sense...