Health and Medicine
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 28 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State Health officials report 19 new cases in Roanoke City, 4 new cases in Roanoke County, 1 new case in Botetourt County and 4 new cases in Salem.
Amid all the debate over whether to re-open schools in person, on line, or with some combination comes the separate questions surrounding the transport of any students who do head to their schools. Like just about everything else associated with COVID-19, it comes with different points of view, as WFIR’s Evan Jones reports:
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 5 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State health officials report 4 new cases in Roanoke City and 1 new case Salem. 3 new coronavirus related deaths are being attributed to Roanoke City.
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 19 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State health officials report 6 new cases in Roanoke City, 8 in Roanoke County, and 4 new cases in Botetourt County and 1 new case Salem.
According to the latest numbers released this morning from the Virginia Department of Health there are 18 new probable or confirmed coronavirus cases being attributed to the Roanoke Valley. State health officials report 9 new cases in Roanoke City, 5 in Roanoke County, and 2 new cases in both Botetourt County and Salem. This comes after 38 new cases were reported yesterday in the Roanoke Valley.
A major goal of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute on the Virginia Tech Carilion campus in Roanoke is to turn that research into viable commercial spinoffs that can help treat people. An FBRI offspring is working on a peptide – that’s an amino acid chain – to treat brain and breast cancer: