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Officials at Philips Respironics, a medical equipment manufacturer that produces ventilators and sleeping equipment, confirmed Friday that the company plans to close the sleep and respiratory care services at its East Huntingdon facility.
A spokeswoman for the international manufacturer said the shutdown is part of an ongoing effort to “enhance the repair services experience for our customers worldwide.”
The Dutch-owned company, which manufacturers ventilators at facilities in Murrysville and Upper Burrell, expanded its workforce at those facilities when demand for its products peaked early in the pandemic.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania is joining California, Clarion and Edinboro in posting plans for a full return to campus. Fall semester at Indiana school is slated to begin Aug. 27, officials said. Declining covid-19 numbers apparently are playing into calculations as university leaders across the region plot their plans for
Officials at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg campus have set the stage for more in-person classes.
Beginning Monday, the official risk status at the Hempfield campus will be lowered from elevated to guarded, Pitt Greensburg President Robert Gregerson announced. The change means professors will have the option of returning to campus to teach classes that are currently being offered online. Students will still have the option of taking all classes online or returning to the classroom, if that is available.
The decision to begin reopening the campus follows state Department of Health reports tracking covid-19 rates at their lowest levels since October and finding a 50% reduction in new cases over the last month.
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The hotly disputed 2020 presidential election, resulting in the ascendancy of Joe Biden into the Oval Office, has proven to be a Rorschach test of various optimisms to many outside observers. At least, that is what seems to be the theme of the many quoted in Deb Erdley’s Page 1 story “History pitches challenges as experts, activists express hopes for Joe Biden’s time in White House”
(Jan. 23, TribLIVE).
David Chambers, political science department chair at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, claims Biden’s nearly