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CALIFORNIA- A record number of Americans filed for unemployment insurance benefits last week, doubling the sensational record of the week prior. The Department of Labor has released its latest numbers showing that 6,648,000 million claims were filed last week, in addition to the 3,029,000 filed the week before as measures are taken across the nation to battle the spread of …
LOUISIANA- Webster Garrison, team manager for the Oakland A’s minor league Stockton Ports last season, is fighting for his life in a hospital due to coronavirus. COVID-19 has been ravaging the area since last week and one of the people affected is Garrison, age 54. According to his fiancé Nikki Trudeaux, he was placed on a ventilator which he was …
BROOKLYN- New York State has taken to using refrigerated trailers as makeshift morgues for victims of coronavirus, which has hit the area hardest in the United States. As of this morning there are 75,795 cases including Governor Cuomo’s own brother, Chris, who is also a news anchor for CNN. The increase has been 9,298 since Monday and there have been …
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS- The Department of Public Health has announced today that an infant younger than one year in Chicago who tested positive for coronavirus disease COVID-19 has died. “There has never before been a death associated with COVID-19 in an infant. A full investigation is underway to determine the cause of death,” said IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike in a …
CALIFORNIA- In the city of La Quinta in Riverside County a 25 year old pharmacy technician has died in self-isolation at a home March 25th after contracting COVID-19 at work in Riverside County. The director of Riverside County Public Health, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, said in a press release, “This is a deeply saddening reminder that COVID-19 kills the young and …
STOCKTON- Last night’s Stockton Unified Board meeting ended with the “reinvent Stockton” operatives on the board of trustees losing their attempt to give controversial superintendent John Deasy increased power. The pretext for such a move was the “public emergency” of pandemic COVID-19 despite the school district already being on break due to the San Joaquin County Board of Education’s recommendation …
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY- This order comes after the county logged 77 cases of coronavirus. A day later they are at 85 confirmed cases. Updated numbers as of 10am:
CALIFORNIA- The mayor of Lancaster, R.Rex Parris, says in a YouTube video posted on the official city of Lancaster YouTube page that the Southern California teen who died of COVID-19 was previously healthy. The teen died Wednesday March 18th and his death was not ruled related to coronavirus until 5 days later when results were received. In the video mayor …
STOCKTON- The United States has quickly surged past both Italy and now China to report the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus at 82,179. This is despite having a population a fraction of the size of China and time to prepare. Over 37,000 of those cases are in New York with 21,000 being in New York City alone. In the …
NEW YORK- The New York Times has published a behind the scenes look at the fight against coronavirus in New York. An emergency room doctor in Elmhurst, New York explains how they are being overwhelmed. Prior to the pandemic they averaged 200 patients in the emergency room per day. Now they have 400 with many coming in for unrelated issues …
