Month: August 2021

By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Multiple local counties now have a “high” level of COVID-19 transmission, according to data from the Centers For Disease Control. READ MORE: Family Of Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin 'Can't Believe' What's Happening In Afghanistan Allegheny, Greene, Washington, Beaver, Lawrence, Armstrong and Jefferson counties each had a “high” level of transmission from Aug 8-14. According to the CDC, having a “high” COVID-19 transmission level means for every 100,000 people, there are 100 cases. READ MORE: After Her Son Was Shot And Killed, Pittsburgh Mother Moves To Become Beacon Of Change In Community Multiple local counties also had a “substantial” level of COVID-19 transmission during that same timeframe. “Substantial” means there are 50 to 100 cases for ev...

RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — A child infected with an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a Northern California lake died in a hospital, his family confirmed Friday. David Pruitt, 7, of Tehama County, died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, on Aug. 7, said his aunt, Crystal Hayley. The boy was rushed to the emergency room on July 30 and then flown to UC Davis Medical Center where he was on life support with severe brain swelling, Hayley said in a fundraising site she created for the family to raise funds for his care and funeral. The infection is extremely rare, and there have only been 10 cases reported in California since 1971, the Tehama County Health Services Agency said in an Aug. 4 news release. It said the boy was likely infected...

All 14 counties in Mass. at high or substantial risk of COVID-19 transmission, CDC says Updated: 4:23 PM EDT Aug 15, 2021 All 14 counties in Massachusetts are now either at a "high" or "substantial" risk level of community COVID-19 transmission, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The latest CDC map shows that eight counties in the Bay State are in the high category (red), while the remaining six are in the substantial category (orange).Essex and Plymouth counties went from a substantial to high risk of community COVID-19 transmission, joining Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Hampden and Suffolk coun...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning of tough days ahead with surging COVID-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday the U.S. could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall. Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans. Dr. Francis Collins also pleaded anew for unvaccinated people to get their shots, calling them “sitting ducks” for a delta variant that is ravaging the country and showing little sign of letting up. “This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out,” he said. Federal health officials have been actively looking at whether extra shots for the vaccinated may be needed as early as this fall, reviewing case num...