Month: March 2021

a Wartburg College student, filed a class action lawsuit earlier this week. The claim is the student through tuition, paid for access to on campus facilities and in person classes for the 2020 spring semester, which the pandemic cut short two months. The tuition refund is certainly a new novel idea coming out of the pandemic bark. Coppola Rude, an attorney from the West Des Moines law firm helping represent the case, says this lawsuit has a narrow focus. They went to campus. They expected the on life campus experience and the, you know, in classroom teaching. And midway through the semester, that all changed. They went to remote learning, and they no longer had, but as the basis for claims, they no longer had access to that on campus and personal experience, he says. Amount Mer...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Department of Public Health officials reported 1,962 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 25 deaths on Saturday. IDPH reported a total of 1,220,432 COVID-19 cases, including 21,059 deaths, since the beginning of the pandemic. As of Thursday night, 1,179 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 228 patients were in the ICU and 103 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators. RELATED: Illinois COVID vaccine map shows how many residents vaccinated by county Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 77,661 specimens for a total of 9,558,920 since the pandemic began. RELATED: Illinois coronavirus testing: Where to get tested for COVID-19 in Illinois, Chicago area The preliminary seven-day statewi...

The emotions around receiving the COVID-19 vaccine have been overwhelming for some and resonate with earlier experiences. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The emotions around receiving the COVID-19 vaccine have been overwhelming for some and resonate with earlier experiences. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Get...

Coronavirus infection rates continued to drop in Israel as 285 new cases of the novel coronavirus were identified on Saturday, with only 1.7% of tests returned positive, the Health Ministry reported Sunday. While the amount of tests administered on Saturdays is consistently lower than on other weekdays, the decrease remains meaningful as on the previous Saturday some 783 cases were reported and on the one before that some 1,878. The last time Israel registered such a low number of cases was once again on a Saturday, but in October. The R rate, or reproduction rate, also continued to decrease, standing at 0.62. The figure reflects how many people each coronavirus carrier infects on average. When the number is lower than 0.8 the disease is considered to be receding. Ex...