Pennsylvania Reports 2nd-Highest COVID-19 Total Of Pandemic
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is reporting 1,857 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest daily total since the beginning of the pandemic, days after officials said the commonwealth was seeing a "fall resurgence" of the coronavirus. The numbers announced Saturday by the state health department are exceeded only by the 1,989 cases reported on April 9 and brings the statewide total to almost 181,000.
Nine new deaths were reported, bringing the total number of deaths associated with the virus to 8,466.
On Wednesday, the state's health secretary pronounced Pennsylvania "at the start of the fall resurgence" of COVID-19 but said there were no plans to reimpose a stay-at-home order or shut down businesses again in response.
Dr. Rachel Levine said Pennsylvania is more prepared for such an influx than it was in the spring, citing a contact tracing program in place, more personal protective equipment supplies and enough hospital beds available.
Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients 65 or older.
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