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Coronavirus

Vaccination rate on the decline in Belmont County

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Comparatively few people are electing to receive COVID-19 vaccinations compared to earlier this year, but the Belmont County Health Department continues to administer shots. “We’re definitely seeing less and less people each week,” Linda Mehl, department director of ...

U.S. tribe shares vaccine with relatives, neighbors in Canada

BABB, Mont. (AP) — On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season’s hottest commodity — a COVID-19 vaccine ...

Middle age demographic declining COVID-19 vaccine in Belmont County

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Fewer people are electing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but doses are still available. Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said people vaccinated in Belmont County are overwhelmingly senior citizens who are more vulnerable to death or long-term ...

As pandemic ebbs, old fear is new again: mass shootings

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later, her relief was replaced by dread: a phone alert — another mass public shooting. Before the pandemic, she would scan for the nearest exit in ...

How companies rip off poor employees and get away with it

NEW YORK (AP) — Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages. When a recession hits, U.S. companies are more likely to stiff their lowest-wage workers. These ...

Pfizer’s long range vaccine pursuits pay off

Pfizer, buoyed by a huge jump in sales for its COVID-19 vaccine and solid first-quarter performance across most of the company, hiked its 2021 financial forecast after blowing past Wall Street expectations. The company, along with its German partner BioNTech, now anticipate sustained revenue ...