This year and last year, some utility company made a full road cut across Donohue Road at Roseytown Road near 84 Lumber. Both of these road cuts were about 2 feet wide and the asphalt settled down, leaving a very significant bump and sharp road edge, which caused cars to
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Saw on TV that Dr. Anthony Fauci indicated by April anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Obvious concern: If there is not an unlimited supply of vaccine by then, then opening up to everyone would be beyond chaotic for registering using the wild system Westmoreland has now.
Example: 28,000 on waiting list at a local pharmacy. Higher use of the internet to make appointments will overload the system.
Our county needs much better controls and procedures before this suggestion could become alive.
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Medical personnel work inside the covid-19 unit at University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., Wednesday, Dec. 16. Covid-19 cases nationwide have been increasing in recent weeks.
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Headlines in the Dec. 13 Trib included “Calls flood ambulance services” and “Hospitals plead for public’s help.” Excela Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carol Fox describes staff holding the phone for a dying covid patient to hear a hymn sung by a pastor, and others holding the hands of patients as they die, alone. An EMT sees a “giant up-tick after the holiday of people not listening.”
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Regarding the recent letters to the editor from the Pennsylvania Pediatric Health Network (“Mitigate to end pandemic”) and Dave Bonazelli (“Schools should be online”), and the article describing the Greensburg-Salem school district’s decision to shut down in-person schooling and athletics until Jan. 26 (“Greensburg Salem shuts down athletics until Jan. 26”): I cannot figure out why people think that closing schools and related activities is helpful or necessary to contain the spread of the virus. I don’t believe there is evidence to support this.