Author:

Readers are awaiting novels of the pandemic, and Emma Donoghue just may have stumbled into writing one of the first. As Donoghue explains in the author's note to her new novel, The Pull of the Stars, she began writing the story in 2018, inspired by the centenary of the Spanish Flu pandemic. Donoghue delivered the final draft to her publishers this past March, just as a stunned world was taking in the enormity of the coronavirus crisis. Understandably, her publishers fast-tracked the publication of The Pull of the Stars, which is set in a maternity ward in 1918 in Dublin, a city hollowed out by the flu, World War I and the 1916 Irish Uprising. In doing a deep dive into the miseries ...

NEW AT NOON, THE POLK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS RE-ENACTING VISITOR RESTRICTIONS AT HOSPITALS IN POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES DUE TO A RISE I CORONAVIRUS CASES. STARTING TOMORROW, VISITORS WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED. HOWEVER THERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS, ONE OR TWO CAREGIVERS WILL BE ALLOWED ONLY IN THE FOLLOWING SITUATIONS. A PATIENT IS DYING, IS IN THE E.R., OUTPATIENT CLINIC OR UNDERGOING SURGERY IS A MINOR , SUFFERS FROM CONFUSION, OR IS THERE FOR MATERNITY SERVICES. THE CAREGIVER CAN NOT HAVE ANY SIGNS OF SICKNESS AND WILL BE SC Rise in coronavirus cases brings return of metro hospital visitor restrictions Updated: 12:07 PM CDT Jul 20, 2020 ...

OF SHOWERS IN THE EVENING, THEN THE VIRUS NEW NUMBERS RELEASED EARLIER TODAY FROM THE MAINE CDC.. 24 NEW CASES TODAY, FOR A NEW TOTAL OF 3- THOUSAND, 7- HUNDRED AND 11 CASES. THERE ARE NO NEW DEATHS REPORTED....THE DEATH TOLL REMAINS ONE HUNDRED AND 17. ACTIVE CASES NOW AT Maine CDC reports 24 new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths Updated: 1:09 PM EDT Jul 20, 2020 The Maine Center for Disease Control reported 24 new cases of coronavirus and no new deaths on Monday.The total number of deaths remains at 117.The 24 new cases brings the total number of cases in Maine to 3,711.A total of 3,159 Mainers have recovered from t...

Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.

TV APP TO YOUR MOBILE DEVICE. THE STATE PERMIT OF HEALTH HAS RELEASED THE LATEST CORONAVIRUS CASE NUMBERS, ADDING 711 CASES BRINGING THE STATE TOTAL TO 101,738. IT REPORTED THREE MORE DEATHS, FOR A TOTAL OF 7018. I KASTER COUNTY HAS 32 NEW CASES, YORK COUNTY WITH 21. DAUPHIN COUNTY HAS 16 NEW CASES. FRANKLIN COUNTY, 13 NEW CASES. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, EIGHT NEW CASES. JUNIATA COUNTY AND LEBANON COUNTY EACH ADDED TWO Coronavirus: 101,738 cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania WGAL News 8 coronavirus cases updates Updated: 12:14 PM EDT Jul 20, 2020 The Pennsylvania Department of Health says there have been 101,738 cases of coronavirus in...