LONDON (AP) — While United States and Britain are bracing for one of the darkest weeks in living memory, there’s good news from Spain where emergency rooms are returning almost to normal a week after dire scenes in hospital corridors. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized. In the U.S., the surgeon general described the…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 500 people are hospitalized in the St. Louis region for the coronavirus, including 139 requiring ventilators. Dr. Alex Garza, head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, said Sunday that 468 patients are hospitalized in the St. Louis area, including 164 in intensive care units, the vast majority of…
Kabul, Afghanistan (AP) — Some 200,000 Afghans and counting have returned from Iran to their home country after losing their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic or out of fear of getting infected. They are flowing across the border from a country that has one of the world’s worst outbreaks to an impoverished nation that is…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Rockwood School District is also joining the COVID-19 fight. The 3D printers inside Rockwood schools – once idled by the COVID-19 schools closure, are idle no more. Instead, volunteer staff members are using them to make personal protective equipment for medical personnel combating coronavirus.