The White House Coronavirus Task Force report for PA issued on Dec 6 includes many new maps and stats about hospital capacity across the country and throughout the state. The document points out, “We are also seeing clear improvement in…
UPDATE — Good news: Apparently the major spike in cases attributed to Montour County early in December was an accounting error and those confirmed cases are actually being apportioned out elsewhere. Bad news: The reapportioning is somewhat offsetting other apparent…
Apps and calculators: COVID Alert PA app COVID Symptom Study — Massachusetts General Hospital My COVID Risk app — assessing risk for specific activities and risk factors COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Tool — calculator for gatherings by county National statistical…
It is fantastic that so much progress is being made toward a COVID-19 vaccine. It is thrilling to think that putting the insanity of this year behind us is now on the horizon. But it’s important to remember that it…
Let me preface this by saying, this article is NOT intended to incite panic, but rather to ensure greater understanding and encourage a rational local response. Let’s look at where we stand here in early November. In case you haven’t…
Downtown Lewisburg didn’t have Halloween trick-or-treating this year. The weather was fine, but concerns about COVID dictated a cautious and creative approach and so the Market Street Mask-A-Rade was born. We should all be taking that example to heart and…
NOTE: After this was published, Bucknell reported an increase in cases and in an effort to tamp down any growth beyond whatever is already baked in, issued a shelter-in-place order for campus. The impact both on the university and on…
People involved with Walk It! Bike It! Lewisburg over the past few years may recall an effort to call attention to a little known book called Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us). …
Masks… distancing… hygiene… oh my! We seem to be getting the idea that this is what we’re supposed to be doing, even if not everyone is on board and it can be hard to remember all the time. But what…
This article was originally published in The Daily Item on Sunday, September 6, in the Opinion Section. We know that COVID-19 does not affect all demographics uniformly, but new analysis from the independent journalism site, the Marshall Project, paints a…