State Update For COVID-19 – Wednesday, June 22 – WNEP Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

WA Health is reporting a total of 4,394 new cases to 6pm last night. There are currently 28,412 active cases in Western Australia. To 6pm last night, there were 242 people with COVID-19 in hospital, 8 in ICU. Sadly, today’s report includes five new deaths, dating back to 24 May,...

Key Takeaways If you were infected with COVID-19 once, it’s possible to get reinfected with new and emerging variants of the virus. In fact, experts say it’s possible to get reinfected with COVID-19 multiple times in a year. Reinfections are likely to be milder and less severe than prior infections because...

Older unvaccinated adults are more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19 Update Getting vaccinated prevents severe illness, hospitalizations, and death. People 65 and older who received both doses of either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines showed a 94% reduced risk of COVID-19 related hospitalization. Unvaccinated people should get vaccinated...

According to the state Department of Public Health’s daily report on Thursday, there were 1,700 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, for a total of 1,755,678 since the pandemic began.  There were also 134 new probable cases of coronavirus, for a total of 158,160 statewide. The DPH said that as of June 22,...

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of3Alec Golding, program coordinator, right, and Sheila Lacouture, registered nurse, work in the Community Health Center (CHC) walk-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Patrick R Waldron Veterans Hall in Rogers Park. The clinic is administering the COVID-19 vaccine shots. June...

Wayne Newton tests positive for COVID-19, cancels several Las Vegas shows  News3LV