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Coronavirus

Latinas left workforce at highest rate, see slow recovery

PHOENIX (AP) — Teresa Marez spent 14 years building a strong clientele base as a hair stylist in San Antonio. When her son, who is autistic, had to switch to virtual learning because of the pandemic, she quit her job to help him. It’s been 10 months, and the clients are all gone. ...

Salvation Army offers vaccines

BELLAIRE — Staff from the Belmont County Health Department administered COVID-19 vaccinations and answered questions as part of another round of riverside clinics Wednesday. Health department maternal child health staffer Jessica Thomas and nurse Carleigh Jeffers said they administered ...

Want a job? Employers say: Talk to the computer

A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn’t make the cut. Anthony didn’t know why — a situation common to most job seekers at one point or another. But she also had no sense at all of how the interview had gone, ...

US COVID-19 deaths hit 600,000, equal to yearly cancer toll

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and look forward to summer. The number of lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is ...

Health board: More seniors 80 and up in need of vaccination

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The percentage of unvaccinated Belmont County residents -- particularly those in the COVID-19-vulnerable demographic of 80 years old and older -- was a topic of concern for the Belmont County Health Board during its Monday meeting. Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul ...