The Superior Express -

In recent weeks the COVID-19 news had been positive. Numbers were declining, hospital rooms were available and the cases didn’t seem to be so serious. The pandemic had ceased to be the headline news for this newspaper and life was slowly returning to normal.

But like the eye of a hurricane, that may have been a deceptive lull. Virus cases are again on the upswing in Nebraska. For the first time in January, for the second and third weeks of April, Nebraska posted consecutive weekly increases in case numbers.

For the week ending Friday the number of Nebraska cases were up 120 percent fro...