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About 10% of the City of Pittsburgh’s 3,300 employees are quarantining due to exposure to COVID-infected individuals or symptoms, according to a Wednesday press release.
The city provides temporary emergency shelter away from families and coworkers for Public Safety Department workers who have been “exposed to serious cases of COVID-19,” according to the release.
With the snow season underway, the city now requires only one driver per Public Works truck. In the event that COVID-19 transmission complicates the city’s ability to continue plowing snow, the city has contractors on standby.
The Allegheny County Health Department [ACHD] reported 508 new COVID-19 cases and 10 new deaths Wednesday, bringing the county-wide totals to 29,515 positive cases and 524 deaths.
The new cases range from three months to 100 years-old, with a median age of 47.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 8,291 new COVID-19 cases and 194 new deaths from the virus Wednesday, bringing the totals throughout the pandemic to 375,431 cases and 10,757 deaths.
There are also currently 4,744 individuals in Pennsylvania hospitalized with COVID-19, about a fifth of whom are in intensive care units. Individuals 65 or older represent most of both the deaths and hospitalizations.
Southwestern Pennsylvanians ages 19 to 24 who tested positive represented about 10% of the total positive caseload in November, double the percentage in April.
Nursing home and personal care home staff and employees in the state represent about 12% of the total caseload and about 61% of the deaths. Healthcare workers represent nearly 4% of the total caseload in Pennsylvania.
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On Forbes Avenue in Oakland, a person wearing a face mask exits a Port Authority bus adorned with the message ‘Stay Home, Save Lives’. (Photo by Kimberly Rowen/PublicSource)
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