Virus cases in Ohio skyrocket

January 12, 2022

More COVID-19 cases have been reported in just the first 11 days of January in Ohio than any full month, except two, since the start of the pandemic. There’s been 210,786 COVID-19 cases reported for January as of Tuesday. The only entire months with more cases than the first 11 days of January are 279,317 in December 2020 and 324,878 last month. This month currently is on pace to have nearly 600,000 COVID-19 cases. Ohio has exceeded 18,000 new cases per day since Dec. 29. Before then, no day had posted that level of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic in March ...

Wed. 9:14 a.m.: Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in Britain, US

January 12, 2022

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19's alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of ...

Wed. 8:57 a.m.: Biden sending more COVID tests to schools to keep them open

January 12, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is increasing federal support for COVID-19 testing for schools in a bid to keep them open amid the omicron surge. The White House announced this morning that the administration is making a dedicated stream of 5 million rapid tests and 5 million ...

Wed. 8:39 a.m.: Djokovic: Not isolating after COVID infection was ‘error’

January 12, 2022

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic knew he'd tested positive for COVID-19 when he attended a newspaper interview and photo shoot in Serbia last month, saying today he made an "error of judgment" and should have immediately gone into isolation. In a statement posted to his social ...

Tue. 9:26 a.m.: UK’s Johnson faces lockdown-breach claims over garden party

January 11, 2022

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a wave of public and political outrage today over allegations that he and his staff flouted coronavirus lockdown rules by holding a garden party in 2020 while Britons were barred by law from mingling outside the home. Opposition ...

Inflation up, virus down as priorities in US, poll says

January 10, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into a critical midterm election year, the top political concerns of Americans are shifting in ways that suggest Democrats face considerable challenges to maintaining their control of Congress. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs ...