Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune system’s response to the virus over time, and is good news for efforts to develop vaccines.
The color-coded system, expected to go live Wednesday, assigns scores to counties based on three key metrics: the number of new cases per 100,000 residents, positivity percentage and change in percent positivity from the previous week.
The Big Ten, in a written statement, said Commissioner Kevin Warren and President Donald Trump had a “productive conversation.”
The tests will come from a supply of 150 million ordered from test maker Abbott Laboratories. Abbott’s rapid test, the size of a credit card, is the first that doesn’t require specialty computer equipment to process.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small businesses, the unemployed, children and schools.
Wall Street kicked off September with another set of milestones Tuesday, as an afternoon rally carried the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to all-time highs.
Indiana is urging the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to apply the brakes to the challenge to the state’s restrictions on absentee balloting. However, in an order issued Tuesday, the 7th Circuit granted the plaintiffs’ motion to expedite the appeal.
There’s no guarantee that any of the leading candidates will pan out. Final testing, experts stress, must be in large numbers of people to know if they’re safe enough for mass vaccinations.
Leanna Weissmann was selected from a pool of three finalists, which also included Vigo County Judge Lakshmi Reddy and New Albany lawyer Lisa Reger.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Tuesday reported 721 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest number of new cases since Aug. 23, as testing hit a 13-day low.
The Department of Health and Human Services contracted with GM to build the ventilators at a converted auto electronics plant in Kokomo at a cost of $489.4 million.
American Airlines plans to offer seasonal flights to Cancun beginning in December, and Delta Air Lines will begin offering flights to Memphis starting Oct. 1.
The term “Only 6%” trended widely on Twitter over the weekend as supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory promoted tweets that falsely suggested the CDC had updated its records to show that only 6% of U.S. deaths tied to COVID-19 were legitimate.
The court documents did not identify how each school voted, but a person familiar with the outcome revealed the three schools that voted against the plan.
Southwest Airlines didn’t levy the $200 change fees to start with, so Monday’s announcements mean that the four biggest U.S. carriers will have roughly similar policies.
J.C. Penney filed for bankruptcy May 15, part of a wave of already-struggling merchants undone by the pandemic. Simon Property, Brookfield Property Partners and Authentic Brands Group were in talks to buy the retailer.
Sources say Scott Atlas has advocated that the United States adopt the model Sweden has used to respond to the virus outbreak, which relies on lifting restrictions so the healthy can build up immunity to the disease.
According to a survey by McKinsey & Co, 46% of shoppers polled in the United States tried new brands or made new purchases with a new retailer.
In Indiana, 24.6% of companies reported a large negative overall effect from the pandemic. That was 8.4% lower than the national average.
Testing of unique individuals has exceeded 8,000 in the Indiana State Department of Health’s daily COVID-19 update for 12 straight days.
