The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 1,032 new COVID-19 cases statewide Friday, including eight in Center County. The new cases have brought the county’s total to 270 since the first was reported on March 20. Center County also had 137 new negative results. A total of 6,190 patients in the …
Read More »HHS Instructs CDC to Put Hospital Data Back on Website
HHS had told hospitals to stop reporting data on coronavirus hospitalizations to CDC, saying the agency was releasing the information too slowly. HHS, CDC’s chief department, said it would manage the information instead. The CDC removed some of the data from its website on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, HHS …
Read More »Scott health officials say Vermont is on track to reopen schools
Governor Phil Scott discusses the state’s Covid-19 response at a press conference on July 1, 2020. Photo by Mike Dougherty / VTDigger Vermont officials continue to prepare for the children to return to the classroom next month, and Governor Phil Scott said at a press conference on Friday that it …
Read More »App store record trashed by Zoom; United States outperformed China
During the second quarter of this year, Zoom completely broke the previous record for app store downloads, previously set by TikTok, according to analytical data. While TikTok recorded 67 million downloads in the United States in the first quarter, Sensor Tower reports, Zoom reached nearly 94 million downloads in the …
Read More »Western China Town Urumqi Enters ‘War Mode’ After Reporting 16 Cases of Coronavirus
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region in the far west of China, went into “war mode” and launched an emergency response plan after the city reported 16 new cases of coronavirus on Friday . FILE PHOTO: People wear protective face masks while walking in a shopping …
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