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Portage County Level 4

Portage County rises to COVID-19 Level 4 Purple status

Gina Butkovich Lauren Sasala December 3, 2020

Portage County has moved to Level 4 ‘Purple’ status. Level 4 is the highest risk level and represents significant spread and exposure of COVID-19. Level 4, or Purple, is the highest level of the four-tier,...

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to get their Covid-19 vaccines on camera to promote public confidence in the vaccine's safety once the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes one.

Former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton volunteer to get coronavirus vaccine publicly to prove it’s safe

(CNN) -- Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to get their Covid-19 vaccines on camera to promote public confidence in the vaccine's safety once the US Food...

VIRUS TODAY: Hospitals desperate for help as cases pile up

VIRUS TODAY: Hospitals desperate for help as cases pile up

By The Associated Press December 2, 2020

 Here's what's happening Wednesday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY— With hospitalizations hitting new peaks every day, medical providers are desperately trying to...

New COVID-19 testing protocols to be enforced in spring 2021

Megan McSweeney Reporter December 2, 2020

Students returning to campus in the spring and new health and safety measures dominated the Board of Trustees' discussion at their meeting Tuesday.University President Todd Diacon opened the presentation...

CDC will decrease coronavirus quarantine time from 14 to 7-10 days. This image shows a traffic sign reading, "quarantine for 14 days" above a road in Brooklyn on October 25, 2020 in New York City.

CDC will decrease coronavirus quarantine time from 14 to 7-10 days

Jeremy Diamond, CNN December 2, 2020

 (CNN) -- The Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, informed Vice President Mike Pence and White House Coronavirus Task Force members on Tuesday that the...

OPINION: Privatization, socialization and the sliding scale of mixed economies

Ross McDonnell Opinion Writer December 1, 2020

In today’s political news cycle, we are bombarded with buzzwords almost 24/7. “Capitalism,” “socialism,” “free market,” “socialization,” “privatization” and so-on are words that I...

OPINION: Brandon’s World – Patrick Mahomes is 2020 NFL MVP

Brandon Lewis Columnist December 1, 2020

When I had originally planned to sit down and write this week’s column, the title of the column was going to be, “There is no clear cut MVP in the NFL this season.”Entering Week 11 of the NFL season,...

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