Iowa opens vaccinations to all adults as virus spreads
DAVID PITT, Associated Press
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa opened coronavirus vaccination to everyone age 16 and older on Monday, as the state dealt with increasing spread of the virus and a seven-day death rate that was among the highest in the nation.
State public health officials reported 68 more deaths on Sunday. Many of those people died weeks earlier because there is a delay between when someone dies and when the the National Center for Health Statistics processes the death certificate, attributes the death to COVID-19 and gets the information to Iowa.
An apparent 4th wave of COVID-19 is centered in the East. Will it hit California?
Luke Money, Maura Dolan and Rong-gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times
April 4, 2021
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People enjoy lunch hour in Union Square, Friday, March 26, 2021, in New York. A year after becoming a global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, New York and New Jersey are back atop the list of U.S. states with the highest rates of infection.Mary Altaffer/AP
What appears to be a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has struck Michigan, the New York region and New England, and experts are uncertain if it will remain contained.
COVID-19 infections on the rise in the Bay Area, following national trend
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Nurse Angelica Juarez (right) provides vaccination information to Gladys Sonchonchex as she visits the Southeast Health Center vaccination tent in San Francisco with her three children.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Suping She (right) assists David Johns in the line for vaccination at the Southeast Health Center in San Francisco.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Coronavirus infections trended up in the Bay Area for the week ending Friday, with the average number of daily new cases at 475, up 8.7% from the prior week ending March 26.
Appeals court considers remote access to New Hampshire House
HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Federal appellate judges on Monday questioned whether the New Hampshire House has undermined the Americans With Disabilities Act by insisting on in-person sessions during the coronavirus pandemic, while also suggesting that vaccinations have made the issue moot.
Seven Democratic lawmakers sued Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard in February arguing that holding in-person sessions without a remote option for medically vulnerable lawmakers violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and has forced them to either risk their lives or abandon their duties as elected officials.