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News reports this week have declared a sky-high record of COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the United States. But these accounts have ignored a critical signifier of that public health metric, failing to distinguish the number of patients hospitalized directly because of COVID from those who merely test positive for the disease while in the hospital for other treatment. Hospitalizations …

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Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones—a black Democrat who backed President Trump during the 2020 presidential election—said that he is not seeking reelection, but he is going to roll out a non-profit rooted in “conservative values.” “Waking Up America is a new organization founded by Vernon Jones that promotes traditional American values including hard work, independence, and self-respect,” the organization’s website explains. “Despite …

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Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and one of Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisors, has said that a nationwide lockdown would help bring the virus under control in the U.S. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Osterholm said that the federal government could borrow the …

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First-time unemployment claims in the U.S. continued to decline last week, down to 709,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The number is the lowest prior to the March start of the global coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic downturn that cost millions of Americans their jobs. The weekly figure was lower than the 740,000 that Wall Street …

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Information on COVID-19 cases and outbreaks within school buildings will be posted on Wicomico County’s school system website beginning this week. In a meeting of the school board Tuesday, Superintendent Donna Hanlin announced the school system would begin posting two dashboards – one for confirmed COVID cases in each of Wicomico County’s public schools and …

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Stephen Decatur High School and Worcester Technical High School halted in-person instruction this week after individuals at Decatur tested positive for COVID-19. On Tuesday, Stephen Decatur Principal Thomas Sites announced that the Berlin high school—Worcester County’s largest—would return to distance learning until after Thanksgiving. The announcement came after the school was notified of its third …

UPDATED: Stephen Decatur High, Tech Schools Go Virtual For 2 Weeks; Superintendent Issues Message To Community; School Status Dashboard Added To Website Read More »

Residents are invited to light up the town to show off their holiday spirit in the coming weeks. The town is now seeking entries for the “Berlin Lights up the Town” contest, a home decorating competition for the holiday season. Residents have until Dec. 1 to sign up. “Berlin has a lot of community spirit,” …

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Republican Sen. James Lankford said in a radio interview Wednesday that President-elect Joe Biden should be receiving intelligence briefings that President Trump has denied giving to him as he challenges the 2020 election results. Lankford, a member of the Oversight Committee, said on a Tulsa, Oklahoma, radio station that he came to the conclusion based on …

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The revolution will not be proofread. A Mississippi state lawmaker tweeted that the state should “succeed from the union” following President Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden, according to reports. Rep. Price Wallace, a Republican representing Rankin and Simpson counties in the state government, made the unfortunate typo Saturday in an apparent endorsement of a secession …

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He’s been trashing the Trump administration’s COVID-19 vaccine plan but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped taking part back in June — skipping more than a dozen White House meetings and snubbing a one-on-one with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, The Post has learned. Cuomo skipped out on 17 consecutive governor calls with the White …

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