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There is no specific documentation that links COVID-19 with food pickup or delivery services. Solid surfaces as a mode of transmission is not a major concern.

If there are still doubts in your mind, cleaning the surface with a disinfectant wipe is effective against the COVID-19 virus.

I have been eating food from local restaurants for the past year that I either pick up or have delivered. I just pick up the food and wash my hands before eating it. That is good practice all of the time, not just during a pandemic.

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Tue, Feb 2 20215:49 PM EST

The idea for the three-day mass vaccination event held this past weekend at Bank of America Stadium was hatched on a walk among friends, according toHoneywell InternationalCEO Darius Adamczyk.

It just so happened Adamcyzk was joined by Carolina Panthers PresidentTom Glickand Atrium Health CEOGene Wood on the stroll. "In the Covid era, one of the social things you can still kind of do is go for walks outside with some of your friends, Adamcyzk said on "Squawk Box," explaining the men live in the same neighborhood.

They were discussing the slower-than-expected start to Covid vaccinations in the U.S. when they realized their respective organizations might be able to do something about it, Adamcyzk recalled. "We said, 'You know, maybe we could help here. Maybe we could partner as a team.'"

More than 20,000 people were ultimately vaccinated from Friday to Sunday at the football stadium, he said. "We did this in the course of three days Friday, Saturday, Sunday," Adamcyzk added. "Twelve hours a day, 20,000 people. Think about if we could do that, set up 50 or 100 of these kinds of sites across the country."

Kevin Stankiewicz

Tue, Feb 2 20215:31 PM EST

Tedros Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, raised the alarm on how weak cooperation between countries could hinder the global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

In a post published by the Foreign Policy magazine, Tedros wrote: "Despite the growing number of vaccine options, current manufacturing capacity meets only a fraction of global need. Vaccines are the best chance of bringing this pandemic under controlunless leaders succumb to vaccine nationalism."

"International collaboration among scientists was critical to vaccine development, but now weak cooperation between nations is a major barrier to achieving worldwide vaccination at the scale needed to end the pandemic," he added.

Several countries, including the U.S., have been struggling to roll out the different Covid-19 vaccines amid amid limited supplies and logistical issues.

Fred Imbert

Tue, Feb 2 20213:58 PM EST

A medical worker prepares a syringe during vaccination with the Gam-COVID-Vak (Sputnik V) vaccine against COVID-19 at Sochi's City Hospital No 4.

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Mexico is nearing approval for the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V after the results of an advanced study were published early in The Lancet, Mexican officials said, according to a report by Associated Press.

The Mexican government's pandemic spokesperson, Assistant Health Secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said the health ministry signed a contract Monday to receive 400,000 doses of Sputnik V this month, according to the report.

Once the Russian vaccine is approved, it will be the third to receive emergency approval in Mexico after prior emergency approvals of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines, the Associated Press reported.

A dozen countries have already approved Sputnik V for use.

Rich Mendez

Tue, Feb 2 20213:14 PM EST

National Football League fans convene in downtown Tampa ahead of Super Bowl LV during the COVID-19 pandemic on January 30, 2021 in Tampa, Florida.

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No NFL players tested positive for the coronavirus in the league's latest round of testing leading up to Super Bowl LV set for Sunday between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Reuters reported.

In total, 2,567 tests were administered to 152 players and 278 team personnel in the latest round of tests, according to the report. The League releases results weekly and tests frequently, especially when there are doubts about safety.

According to the NFL Network, two players on the Kansas City Chiefs, receiver Demarcus Robinson and center Daniel Kilgore, were put on the reserve list after having close contact with a barber that recently tested positive for the coronavirus. Both players were masked during the interaction, the League said, according to the report.

Rich Mendez

Tue, Feb 2 20212:55 PM EST

The United States will begin shipping Covid-19 vaccine doses directly to retail drugstores on Feb. 11 as it looks to expand access to the life-saving shots nationwide, the Biden administration's Covid-19 response team said.

The federal program, which is separate from its partnership with CVS and Walgreens to vaccinate long-term care residents, will start with 6,500 stores nationwide, White House Covid response coordinator Jeff Zients said at a press briefing.

The U.S. is also increasing its weekly shipments of vaccine doses to states by 5%, he said. That means the federal government will now send a minimum of 10.5 million doses per week for the next three weeks across the U.S.

The administration has allocated 1 million doses to pharmacies in addition to the 10.5 million it has set aside for states, tribes and U.S. territories beginning next week, Zients said.

Noah Higgins-Dunn

Tue, Feb 2 20211:59 PM EST

The United States appears to be turning a corner on the Covid-19 pandemic as cases and hospitalizations rapidly fall across the country, but that progress could be thwarted by more contagious strains that have quickly taken hold in other parts of the world.

The seven-day average of daily new cases in the U.S. is down 41% from its peak last month and the number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 is down 29% from the peak.

But epidemiologists warn that the U.S. is at a dangerous point in the pandemic. They expressed concern that the declining numbers could lull the country into a sense of complacency when more caution than ever is needed. And while the numbers are off their peaks, the level of infection remains so high in most of the country that the loosening of restrictions as well as the spread of more contagious variants could still undo the country's progress, they say.

"There seems to be already a tendency, including in my own community, to start opening things up again, letting the bar stay open later and that sort of thing," Dr. Bill Schaffner, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University, said in a phone interview. "I'm worried about that because I thought we'd learned that lesson. As soon as you do that, cases start to go up again."

Will Feuer

Tue, Feb 2 20211:40 PM EST

Democrats will push forward on passing a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill without any Republican support.

Congress is set to take the first votes Tuesday toward passing a budget resolution, which allows lawmakers to use the reconciliation process. Through it, Democrats could pass an aid package with a simple majority vote in the Senate.

The party hopes to pass the budget resolution this week. It instructs committees to draft policies including $1,400 direct payments, a $400 per week unemployment benefit through September, state and local government relief and rental and mortgage assistance.

In announcing the Senate would move ahead with the budget measure, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said "time is a luxury our country does not have." He said he still hoped Republicans would join Democrats in passing a bill, a day after 10 GOP senators met with President Joe Biden about relief efforts.

Those Republicans put forward an aid proposal about a third of the size of the Democrats' plan.

Jacob Pramuk

Tue, Feb 2 202112:32 PM EST

99-year-old war veteran Captain Tom Moore at his home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, April 16, 2020, after he achieved his goal of 100 laps of his garden - raising more than 12 million pounds for the NHS.

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Capt. Sir Tom Moore, who became a universally loved hero for his fundraising efforts during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, has died, his family said in a statement.

The 100-year-old recently suffered from pneumonia and was diagnosed with Covid-19 last week, his family said. The World War II veteran raised $53 million for the U.K.'s National Health Service by walking laps in his garden last year, according to Reuters.

"The care our father received from the NHS and carers over the last few weeks and years of his life has been extraordinary," his family said in a statement. "They have been unfalteringly professional, kind and compassionate and have given us many more years with him than we ever would have imagined."

Rich Mendez

Tue, Feb 2 202111:20 AM EST

Former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang stands with his family at an event announcing his candidacy for New York City Mayor in upper Manhattan in New York City, January 14, 2021.

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Andrew Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate who is now running for New York City mayor, said he's tested positive for Covid-19 and is in quarantine.

"I am experiencing mild symptoms, but am otherwise feeling well and in good spirits," Yang said in a statement. Yang said he tested negative for the virus over the weekend but then tested positive Tuesday through a rapid test.

Yang said that his campaign team, who are subject to weekly testing if they attend in-person activities, have started tracing all of his close contacts. He will continue to attend virtual campaign events.

Noah Higgins-Dunn

Tue, Feb 2 202111:09 AM EST

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing the spread of Covid-19, according to a peer-reviewed phase 3 clinical trial published in The Lancet international medical journal, according to a report by Reuters.

"The development of the Sputnik V vaccine has been criticized for unseemly haste, corner-cutting, and an absence of transparency," Professor Ian Jones of the University of Reading and Professor Polly Roy, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine told The Lancet.

"But the outcome reported here is clear and the scientific principle of vaccination is demonstrated," said the scientists, who were not involved in the study, according to Reuters. "Another vaccine can now join the fight to reduce the incidence of Covid-19."

Terri Cullen

Tue, Feb 2 202110:44 AM EST

UPS CEO Carol Tome stands with workers

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UPS reported better-than-expected revenue and profits over the busy holiday season, reflecting a boom in online shopping amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Shares of the company rose roughly 4% following its earnings report.

Revenue for the Atlanta-based logistics and delivery company rose 21% to $24.9 billion during the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31. Its domestic package division saw a 17.4% increase in year-over-year revenue as its network filled to the brink with deliveries from online retailers.

"Looking at the fourth quarter, our results were strong and considerably better than we expected," CEO Carol Tome said on the company's earnings call following the report. "This is the highest quarterly operating profit in the company's history, with record profit produced in each segment."

Noah Higgins-Dunn

Tue, Feb 2 202110:23 AM EST

Flor Rodriguez (L), 72, of Nevada, receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination from Southern Nevada Health District nurse Daliah Rubio at Jerome Mack Middle School on January 29, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Pfizer plans to deliver 200 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to the U.S. by May, earlier than its initial forecast of July, according to slides published by the company.

The company, also said it can potentially deliver 2 billion doses globally by the end of this year now that health-care providers can extract an additional sixth dose of the vaccine from the vials.

Pfizer, like other Covid vaccine makers, has been struggling to meet the demand for shots that hopefully will help bring an end to the pandemic. It recently enlisted the help of French drugmakerSanofito help produce 100 million doses of its vaccine.

In the slides published, Pfizer also said patients will "likely need to boost regularly to maintain immune response and to counter emerging variant strains."

Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

Tue, Feb 2 202110:01 AM EST

Concerns that coronavirus mutations could render available vaccines less effective were justified after the mutation "of most concern" occurred spontaneously in the U.K. variant, Reuters reports, citing a professor of outbreak medicine who is part of a panel that advises the British government.

The U.K. variant's mutation, known as E484K, has also been seen in the South African and Brazilian variants, according to Reuters. Studies have found that vaccines and antibody therapy are less effective against the South African variant.

Initially, early studies showed that vaccines worked just as well against the U.K. variant, called B.1.1.7, prior to the E484K mutation, the wire service reported.

"The mutation of most concern, which we call E484K, has also occurred spontaneously in the new Kent strain in parts of the country too," Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told BBC radio.

Terri Cullen

Tue, Feb 2 20219:44 AM EST

BP reported its first full-year loss in a decade while Exxon Mobilposted its fourth-straight quarter of losses as business restrictions imposed for the ongoing pandemic drove oil and gas prices lower.

BP's fourth-quarter profit of $115million missed analyst expectations of $285.5 million and the U.K.-based oil and gas company warned the pandemic would continue to impact its performance, CNBC's Sam Meredith reports.

Exxon's fourth-quarter loss was $20.1 billion on revenue of $46.54 billion. The company earned 3 cents a share, excluding items, which was ahead of the 1 cent profit expected by analysts surveyed by Refinitiv, but revenue fell short of the Street consensus for $48.76 billion, CNBC's Pippa Stevens reported.

Melodie Warner

Tue, Feb 2 20218:26 AM EST

A Sun Tran employee offers free masks to passengers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the downtown bus station in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., June 20, 2020.

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The Biden administration's mask mandate for transportation took effect just before midnight Tuesday, requiring travelers on planes, trains, ferries and other modes of transportation to wear a face covering.

U.S. airlines have required travelers to wear masks on board since last spring, but workers have urged federal mask requirements to give more weight to the rule. The Trump administration recommended masks but stopped short of mandating them. Airlines have banned more than 2,000 people for refusing to wear masks on board.

"We recently got good news when President Biden signed an executive order mandating face masks across interstate travel, including airports and aircraft," Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told employees on Monday. "This adds a layer of protection for our people who have been integral in enforcing our mask policy. To date, we've banned approximately 950 people for failing to comply with the mask requirement."

The Transportation Security Administration, one of the agencies that will enforce the rule, says travelers who fail to comply could face civil penalties.

Leslie Josephs

Tue, Feb 2 20218:20 AM EST

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Sick patients were isolated in converted warehouses during the 1918-19 global influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty hide caption

Sick patients were isolated in converted warehouses during the 1918-19 global influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million worldwide.

Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be that war, natural disaster or a pandemic.

This dark but necessary arithmetic has become all too routine during the COVID-19 outbreak.

January was the deadliest month so far in the U.S.; the virus killed more than 95,458 Americans.

The total U.S death toll has now surpassed 441,000.

Each death is unique, a devastating loss that ripples through a family, a network, a community. But in the aggregate, the national death toll can feel abstract, and its constant repetition in the news can become numbing. Journalists, commentators and public officials are left searching for new ways to convey the deadliness of this pathogen, and the significance of its mounting fatality rate.

Many have turned to history, citing Pearl Harbor (2,403 killed) or the 9/11 attacks (2,977 killed), as a way of providing perspective when the number of daily COVID deaths in the U.S. reached those levels. (Currently, more than 3,000 Americans are dying from COVID every day.)

Jan. 21, 2021 offered another opportunity for historical comparison: That was the day when the COVID death toll in the U.S. reached and then exceeded the 405,399 Americans who died in World War II.

For many, attempting to compare the two death tolls or even take note of their brief conjunction is misguided or even offensive. It is certainly a morally fraught exercise. The true emotional and social impact of either event can never be quantified, but many media outlets still mentioned it.

Which raises the question: Are we as a society too quick to reach for these historic comparisons? Should a politically driven world war and a biologically driven pandemic, more than seven decades apart, be put side by side at all?

"This is comparing apples to oranges," wrote NPR listener Kris Petron last month in response to a story that made use of that comparison. "It is extremely disrespectful to our nation's veterans, who write a blank check with their lives, to defend our Constitution."

Petron is not alone.

This type of response, over time, has convinced medical historian Dr. Howard Markel to make it a practice of never drawing parallels between the death toll from war and a pandemic.

"I try not to make comparisons to an event or group that I know contains within it a great deal of sentiment, feeling and pain," says Markel, a professor at the University of Michigan and author of When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed.

The notion that combat deaths carry a unique meaning or value is deeply rooted in human culture. Societies tend to valorize those who died for a cause on a battlefield.

But in this pandemic it's the frail elderly many of them living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities who have died in vast numbers.

"To the watching world, that's not the same as the death of a young soldier in their 20s, let's say, on the front lines in a war," says Yale historian Frank Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

"But, I don't think we have a right to weigh up lives and say which is more important," Snowden added.

Unlike COVID-19, the global influenza pandemic of 1918-19 killed many people who were in their 20s and 30s yet as Snowden notes, there wasn't much collective mourning for those young adults, despite dying in the prime of life.

"People were so used to mortality because of the [first world] war that even the horrible tallies that were coming with the Spanish influenza had lost their capacity to horrify the way that one might expect," he says.

When we do compare death tolls, what exactly are we comparing?

The effort to compare the death toll of the pandemic with that of a war strikes historian Sam Biagetti as an especially "modern" exercise.

"Through the vast majority of human history, people have understood warfare and disease to go hand in hand and to be inextricably linked," says Biagetti, who is the creator and host of the podcast Historiansplaining.

The flu pandemic 100 years ago was fueled by the conditions of World War I and ultimately killed more people than the war, with an estimated 50 million flu deaths worldwide and upwards of 700,000 flu deaths in the U.S.

"All those millions of deaths were another outcome of the war, and people didn't understand them necessarily as two separate phenomena," he says.

In fact, before World War II, combatants were far more likely to die of an infectious disease than from battle-related trauma. Biagetti points out that World War II was the first conflict in American history in which combat killed more fighters than disease, a pattern which has continued since and reflects medical advances such as vaccines and antibiotics.

"We've really changed how we think about war, in a way that is misleading and distorting this idea you can kind of sum up the toll of a war just by counting the bodies from the battlefield," Biagetti says.

A U.S. Marine cemetery at the foot of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

A U.S. Marine cemetery at the foot of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima.

Official military records are one way of assessing a conflict's lethality, but they have limits, which is why Biagetti views them as inadequate for understanding the full breadth of the impact of these historical events.

The carnage of war doesn't end just because peace is declared. The chaos and turmoil often fuels further death, as the influenza pandemic did in World War I. The spillover effects of war continue long after formal hostilities end, and include disability and disfigurement, mental trauma, addiction, homelessness and suicide.

One example is the ongoing suicide crisis among U.S. veterans. Between 2005 and 2017, 78,875 veterans died by suicide more than the number of soldiers killed in Vietnam, 58,220.

For all these reasons, Biagetti worries about comparing the current pandemic to any war, even if just for the purpose of counting the dead.

"You can't just try to sum up in a simple statistic, how big is this disaster versus that disaster, as if they can even be summed up in a simple number at all."

And yet the language of warfare permeates so much of the national discourse about the pandemic.

Nurses work on the "frontlines." Coronavirus is described as an invisible "enemy." The country is "battling" the virus.

As a metaphor, "war" becomes a call to action, and a recognition of sacrifice

On Jan. 15, then-President-elect Joe Biden announced his vaccine distribution plan, declaring: "We're in a war with this virus."

Five days later, in his inaugural address, he said: "It's taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II."

Some Americans whose relatives have died from COVID embrace the rhetoric of war, and believe comparing the pandemic to past wars is imperative.

"The scale of this is that of a war, it's just a different type of war and it's not one that we're necessarily taught in our history books," says Kristen Urquiza, who co-founded the advocacy group Marked By COVID after her father died from the disease over the summer.

Urquiza believes that the country struggled collectively to respond to the coronavirus because Americans have little understanding about what it takes to overcome a pandemic.

"In a way, it's sort of more dangerous [than war] because we are culturally unprepared for it."

There are also veterans who feel the war analogies are appropriate, and even helpful. Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency physician in Yuma, Ariz., has treated COVID-19 patients from the early days of the outbreak, readily compares the pandemic to a war.

"It's very hard to communicate the severity of this pandemic if you're not in a hospital, where this war is being waged," says Gilman, who served as a Marine combat medic in Iraq in 2004.

World War II was the deadliest war in human history, but not in American history: that distinction belongs to the Civil War. The death toll has traditionally been estimated to be about 618,000 but new research indicates 750,000 may be more accurate.

But World War II looms large in America's cultural memory as a "good war," one that united the country against a clear-cut enemy, says Catherine Mas, a history professor at Florida International University who studies the history of medicine, race and religion.

In retrospect, the American response to World War II stands in sharp contrast to the current political divisions over the coronavirus, and the fragmented and uneven national response.

Despite the differences, Mas says the comparisons can still be powerful tools as the country tries to reckon with a crisis that has taken place out of sight for many Americans. People are dying in hospitals, without family members at the bedside, and only healthcare workers are there to bear witness.

"The reason we want to compare COVID-19 deaths to something like World War II is not just because the numbers are there, but to acknowledge this is a significant rupture in society," she says.

"This mass death is going to create trauma: how are we going to deal with that? How have we dealt with that in the past? I think it's part of our human condition to try to search for some reference points."

This story was produced in partnership with Kaiser Health News.

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No question, we spent way too much time fighting with the governor about his authority, and it ended up being at the expense of other, more important issues, Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa (D., Allegheny) said of the legislatures approach to law-making in 2020. We left way too much unfinished business on the table.

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The more infectious variant B.1.1.7 was found in an individual with no recent travel history outside of the U.S., according to DCPH.

This story will be continuously updated on Feb. 3 as new information is released.

Denton County Public Health announced its first known case of the UK coronavirus variant.

The more infectious variant B.1.1.7 was found in an individual with no recent travel history outside of the U.S., according to DCPH. No further information has been released at this time.

Even as Denton County ramps up the number of vaccinations this week, it is important to remember that everyone should continue to practice the CDC guidelines for social distancing, hand washing, and wearing masks, Denton County Judge Andy Eads said.

We know these practices work, even as different variants of the COVID-19 virus circulate around the globe. All individuals, with or without a vaccine, should continue following these basic steps to protect the health and safety of everyone.

The state's first known case of the more contagious variant of COVID-19 was confirmed on Jan. 7 in Harris County. The first North Texas case was confirmed on Jan. 16 in Dallas County.

Denton County health officials also announced 621 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday afternoon, of which 539 are currently active. The new cases bring the countywide total to 55,363.

Since tracking began in mid-March 2020, 325 residents have died and nearly 40,000 have recovered, according to health officials.

Dallas County reports record 50 deaths

Dallas County health officials reported 50 coronavirus-related deaths, its highest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Officials said a total of 2,230 residents have died since tracking began in mid-March 2020.

The deaths included men and women who range in age from 40 to over 100. All but 11 residents had underlying high-risk health conditions, officials reported.

As we have said, these will be our darkest months for deaths thus far, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said.

But if we make good choice, if we register to be vaccinated in as many places as were willing to drive to if we qualify under 1B, and if we wear our mask, maintain our distance, avoids crowds, including Super Bowl parties and forgo get-togethers, we will have a better March

Health officials also announced 1,356 cases of COVID-19, bringing the countywide total to 231,411 confirmed cases.

Health officials have confirmed four cases of the UK coronavirus variant in residents who have not traveled outside of the U.S.

Man in 30s among 14 deaths reported in Tarrant County

A Fort Worth man in his 30s is among the latest victims to die from COVID-19 in Tarrant County, officials said Wednesday.

Thirteen other deaths were also confirmed by health officials, bringing the county's death toll to 2,291.

The victims ranged from a Colleyville woman in her 90s to a Fort Worth woman in her 50s. Twelve of the people had underlying health conditions, officials said.

Tarrant County is, however, seeing a slight improvement in coronavirus-related hospitalizations. The dashboard shows there are currently 1,050 coronavirus patients. One month ago, there were 1,378 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, according to the county website.

A spokesperson for Cook Children's confirmed earlier in the day that there are currently 11 patients in the hospital with coronavirus. In a written statement, spokesperson Kim Brown urged parents and the community to avoid gathering Sunday for the Super Bowl.

"Lets keep this downward trend going," she said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci echoed a similar message. He said when it comes to Super Bowl parties during the pandemic, people should just lay low and cool it," the Associated Press reported.

He said Wednesday that now isnt the time to invite people over for watch parties because of the possibility that theyre infected with the coronavirus and could sicken others.

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(WBNG) -- Broome County Executive Jason Garnar is expected to hold a coronavirus briefing Wednesday afternoon.

The state COVID-19 mass vaccination site at the former Gannett Printing building in Johnson City had adelayed opening Tuesday due to the snowstorm.

The number of active cases in Broome County dropped significantly in the past week. According to theBroome County COVID-19 Trackeron Jan. 27, there were 1,439 active cases, and as of Feb. 2, there are 885. Active cases have dropped by nearly 600 in one week.

According to theNew York State COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker,the Southern Tier has received 67,835 total doses (1st and 2nd), administered 53,481 total doses (1st and 2nd), and has administered/received 79% doses (1st and 2nd).

The Broome County rapid testing site is located atMacArthur Parkuntil Sunday, Feb. 7, and is open from 1 to 7 p.m.

The conference will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Tune in to 12 News tonight at 5, 5:30, and 6 p.m. for the latest and check our website for updates.

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J.J. Boatman was rushed to the emergency room where doctors performed life saving techniques to restore his breathing, WFAA reported. By Monday afternoon the decision was made to fly him to a childrens hospital, where he died on Tuesday. The doctor said he died from complications from the coronavirus. His lungs had filled with fluid, and his brain was swollen from lack of oxygen. His family did not know he was infected, as he had shown no symptoms.

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