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Pittsburgh Public Schools staff and families are receiving a phone message warning of a potential case of covid-19 affecting a staff volunteer. The volunteer assisted with the distribution of laptops and instructional packets at Pittsburgh Milliones in the Hill District. According to the phone message, the district was notified that...

WASHINGTON — After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the injection of toxic disinfectants...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Census Bureau needs more time to wrap up the once-a-decade count because of the coronavirus, opening the possibility of delays in drawing new legislative districts that could help determine what political party is in power, what laws pass or fail and whether communities of...

WASHINGTON — It is a big promise from Silicon Valley to a nation looking for ways to be freed from home confinement: Smartphones could discreetly detect those who may have covid-19 and nudge them to quarantine, blunting renewed outbreaks as Americans start to venture out. But as tech firms lay...

Westmoreland County saw 14 new cases of covid-19 as of Sunday, but no new deaths related to the virus, data provided by state and local officials show. The county’s total number of covid-19 cases reached 374 on Sunday, up from the 360 cases reported on Saturday. The death total reported...

The promise of “Pomp and Circumstance” remained Sunday, even as the University of Pittsburgh honored nearly 8,000 graduates in a virtual commencement. Families near and far gathered before screens to mark the day with newly minted graduates — now members of the Class of Covid-19 — and listened as Pitt...

Thirteen more people in Pennsylvania have died from covid-19, bringing the statewide death total to 1,550, state health officials announced Sunday. The health department reported 1,116 additional positive cases of covid-19 from Saturday to Sunday, bringing the number of positive cases to 41,165. People in all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties...

The Allegheny County Health Department on Sunday reported no additional covid-19 deaths and only 13 new confirmed or probable cases of the illness. Officials, however, were reluctant to declare that viral infections have peaked. A spokeswoman for the Allegheny County Health Department noted that there are often delays in reporting...

HANOVER, Pa. — In farming, there are many unknowns. The economy, weather and customer demand can affect crops and ultimately a farmer’s bottom line. This year the agricultural industry was thrown a curve ball with covid-19. Now as harvest season approaches, farmers are facing new questions about the availability of...

Peter Salk still remembers the trepidation he felt when his father came home from work one day in May 1953 and promptly began boiling a set of needles and syringes on the kitchen stove. With several years of research and promising results in monkeys fueling high hopes, Dr. Jonas Salk...

Britain’s Boris Johnson will return to work on Monday and take charge of the U.K.’s handling of the pandemic, a month after he was struck down by the coronavirus. The government has been without a leader since the prime minister was admitted to a London hospital on April 5. Since...

Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet is looking for feedback from the broader school community on two options for fourth-quarter grading guidelines. Two new options were developed following school board input Wednesday to present changes to the grading guidelines due to the covid-19 pandemic. In response to the state mandate...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging careful science to prove whether any of the drugs being explored as covid-19 treatments actually work. Fauci, infectious diseases chief at the National Institutes of Health, said Saturday during an online meeting of the National Academy of Sciences that the only way to get an...

NEW YORK — New York is starting to test healthcare workers for coronavirus antibodies and will do the same next week with transit and law enforcement workers as the state eases away from the worst days of the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, Doctors, nurses and other employees at...

WASHINGTON — The Navy reports that the number of sailors aboard the USS Kidd confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus has nearly doubled, rising from 18 on Friday to 33. The destroyer, with its crew of 350, is off the Pacific coast of South America. Its current mission...

NEW YORK — The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of its mission, according to Northwell Health, which provides operational assistance to the vessel....

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday acknowledged frustration with coronavirus stay-home orders that have kept his state’s residents largely restricted to their homes for nearly two months, but he compared them to past generations’ sacrifices during prior national crises. “It’s been 56 long days,” Cuomo said at his daily...

Two more residents of Allegheny County’s nursing home in Pittsburgh’s Glen Hazel neighborhood have died of covid-19, bringing the facility’s death toll to nine as officials scramble to contain the outbreak, county health data show. Another 60 residents and 33 employees at the Glen Hazel location have tested positive for...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When it comes to first impressions, Tampa didn’t exactly give the best of welcomes to one of its newest and most famous residents when NFL superstar Tom Brady was ejected from a downtown park while working out. Mayor Jane Castor tried to make amends by issuing a...

ATLANTA — As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing some lockdowns, while fears of infection made even some pandemic-wounded businesses reluctant to reopen. The states of Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska started loosening restrictions on businesses despite warnings from experts...

Howlers, an iconic location for live music in Pittsburgh, will not be taking a final bow in Bloomfield after all. Last February, Howlers announced it was moving from its Liberty Avenue location but that it would remain open until the end of August. But in a message to patrons on...

Westmoreland County added 43 new cases of patients with covid-19 as of Saturday morning, for a 13.5% increase from the previous day, state data show. The county’s total number of confirmed and probable cases has reached 360, up from 317 as of Friday and 307 on Thursday, the state health...