HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The legality of an order by Pennsylvania's acting state health secretary that requires masks in K-12 schools and child care facilities will be decided by the state Supreme Court after the two sides argue their respective positions before the justices Wednesday. The ...
One of Pennsylvania's largest health systems has run out of beds because of the latest COVID-19 surge, with doctors and nurses practicing "waiting room medicine" on patients who are forced to endure 10- to 20-hour delays in the emergency department, officials said Wednesday. Geisinger is running at 110% capacity across its nine hospitals in central and northeastern Pennsylvania — overrun with largely unvaccinated COVID-19 patients who represent a quarter to well over half of all admissions, said Dr. Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger's president and chief executive officer. He said he expects the ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Health officials reported the first confirmed case of the omicron variant in Pennsylvania on Friday, a man in his 30s from Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced the case in a news release. No other details were immediately available, including whether the man was vaccinated against COVID-19 or if he had been traveling. Health officials said contact tracing was underway. The health department said the variant's arrival was "not unexpected" in Philadelphia and that residents should "seriously reconsider" plans for indoor holiday ...
Unemployment is down again in Warren County. According to data released Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (L&I), the unemployment in the county was 5.4 percent in October. According to the department’s seasonally-adjusted figures, there were about 1,000 residents out of work out of a work force of over 18,000. According to the data, increases in the number of jobs in trades, transportation, and utilities, professional and business services, and local government more than made up for losses in manufacturing in terms of the number of jobs in the county. The ...
There were five more deaths attributed to COVID-19 among Warren County’s numbers on Wednesday. That matches the second-highest single-day of reporting. There were multiple days in January when five deaths were reported. On Jan. 1, the Pennsylvania Department of Health added 10 to the county’s death toll. There is a delay between the date of death and the report of that death as COVID-related by the department to provide time for confirmation. The five deaths reported Wednesday include three from Nov. 26 — the most recent COVID deaths to have been confirmed and released in the ...
After a quiet Thanksgiving weekend, Warren County’s COVID numbers rebounded in a big way. There were six new cases reported for Thanksgiving Day, then nine Friday, one Saturday, and none on Sunday. The figures for Monday, released Tuesday, show 87 new cases, bringing the county’s total to 5,097. A total of 87 represents the highest single-day increase, easily topping the 76 reported on Dec. 22. Of the total cases, 4,251 are confirmed and 846 are probables. On Monday, the percent of residents who have or have had COVID surpassed 13 percent. Another death was also added to the ...
