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A 21-year-old man will serve 50 to 100 years in prison for the attempted murder of two state troopers last year while they were driving him back to the state prison in Indiana County.
Indiana County President Judge William J. Martin imposed the sentence Monday on Simere Maurice Alford. In September, a jury found Alford guilty of assault and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, assault by a prisoner, disarming a law enforcement officer, reckless endangerment, attempted escape and resisting arrest. He also was convicted of robbery, theft, illegal possession of a firearm and institutional vandalism.
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Dec 11, 2020 10:19 AM
Indiana Regional Medical Center President and CEO Steve Wolfe said the facility is ready to receive doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, but few details are available now on the distribution protocol.
In an interview on Indiana In the Morning on WCCS, Wolfe said that IRMC would receive about 975 doses of the vaccine. Wolf said that while the hospital will distribute those to front-line workers, The PA Department of Health has not provided IRMC a lot of details on community distribution.
Winter is the customary cold and flu season, and a time during which many people arenât as vigilant about maintaining their health as they might be at other times of the year. This winter has the additional variable of the coronavirus pandemic, which surged into 2021 with a second wave of spread and infection.
Building a maintaining a strong immune system is an essential aspect of general health and well-being, but it has taken on even more importance given the unique circumstances nearly everyone is facing to some degree.
Battling a double threat
The annual flu season was pretty much over when the COVID-19 pandemic appeared in the United States in March 2020; but as the world confronts the current surge and spike in cases, influenza cases are likely on the rise, too.