Facing down a mysterious, deadly disease, caregivers across Geisinger’s hospitals have grappled with a harrowing inundation of patients battling COVID-19. According to a recent press release, a 30-minute documentary, “Five Days in May — Inside the fight against COVID-19,” offers a ...
MUNCY — The Muncy School Board approved changes to the district’s Health and Safety Plan to establish when the students could end up in remote learning based on the number of confirmed or presumed positive cases of COVID-19. According to the changes, decisions would be made based on building-specific metrics. If three people within a building test positive for the virus, it would trigger going to a five- to seven-day break, according to Dr. Craig Skaluba, district superintendent. If contract tracing, performed in light of those positive cases, leads to further positives, the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are taking a new tack to encourage Americans to wear masks: They're emphasizing recent research that a mask protects the person who wears it. Previously, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised people to wear masks because of evidence ...
“This virus is a very humbling virus, you have to be very adaptable,” Dr. Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger president and CEO said in a press briefing on Friday morning. “We have to be super vigilant. Don’t let off the gas.” With record high numbers across the state in the last couple of weeks, Geisinger has also seen a recent uptick in hospitalizations and positive tests across their health care system, according to Ryu. “COVID is in our communities and it is spreading,” he said. “It (the virus) looks like it is making a resurgence. It is obviously concerning.” In the most ...
Pfizer said Monday that an early peek at the data on its coronavirus vaccine suggests the shots may be a surprisingly robust 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, putting the company on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The ...
PORTERSVILLE — The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from the little town where “Night of the Living Dead” was filmed. The moment: Halloween season 2020, a moonlit Friday night. She strides up to the hayride and beckons you to the dimly lit tent behind ...
