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Most of the patients being treated for COVID in local hospitals aren’t there for other reasons, St. Luke’s University Health Network officials said in a news release Thursday; a statistic they said “contradicts the recent public narrative that most hospitalized COVID inpatients tested positive for the coronavirus incidentally only after being admitted to the hospital for other reasons.”
It’s certainly not the list most counties would want to top, but Lehigh and Northampton counties are currently ranked #1 and #2, respectively, among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties for the average number of new COVID cases they are reporting per 100,000 residents.
A century ago, in a special full-page, illustrated story published on Nov. 5, 1922, The Allentown Morning Call proclaimed Coopersburg “the Town of Possibilities.” But 100 years earlier it wasn’t known as Coopersburg and was little more than “a country village.”
With fresh snow on the ground and temperatures below freezing, Friday was a day when thousands of motorists likely wished they could have stopped at a Wawa that’s nearly ready to open at Rt. 309 and Passer Road in Upper Saucon Township.
It certainly wasn’t the storm of the century, but the snow that moved through the Lehigh Valley Thursday night and early Friday morning was enough to provide areas such as Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh with their first real taste of winter so far this year.
The post-holiday surge in COVID cases many public health experts feared appears to be in full swing in places like Lehigh County, which reported a new daily case record Tuesday.
It will be harder for some Lehigh Valley residents who depend on the Lehigh & Northampton Transportation Authority’s (LANTA’s) bus service to get around the area Monday, after LANTA announced the cancellation of some Jan. 3 trips on its routes due to what it said is “a high level of absences among bus drivers due to COVID 19.”
It’s been a quiet season so far in terms of winter weather in the Lehigh Valley, but that could change Wednesday morning, when light freezing rain could make roads treacherous.
A Hellertown business owner has announced that he will once again seek to represent the 131st legislative district in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives.
A fatal shooting near a busy convenience store in Fountain Hill borough Thursday night happened after an arranged gun sale in a parking lot went awry, according to authorities.