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Jul 15 2020
News
Battle brewing on coronavirus relief oversight
A lack of oversight for more than $2 trillion in COVID-19 spending approved by Congress is creating uncertainty about whether relief programs are working as planned, adding a new layer of complications to the next coronavirus package.
The three independent oversight panels set up by Congress in the bipartisan CARES Act almost four months ago have all encountered serious obstacles —
The HillJul 08 2020
News
US surpasses 3 million coronavirus infections
The United States surpassed 3 million coronavirus infections on Wednesday, a grim milestone as the virus surges in more than half of all states, and a predicted waning of infections this summer never occurred.
Data from the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center showed the U.S. had 3,009,611 cases at midday on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the U.S. set a record with 60,000
The HillJul 06 2020
News
What Would It Mean If the Coronavirus Is Airborne?
COVID-19 is known to be transmitted mainly by respiratory droplets. This is the reasoning behind physical distancing, since it’s hard for those droplets to travel more than a few feet. But scientists are debating whether very small droplets—small enough to float through the air—are common enough and infectious enough to be a serious risk.
The nature of a brand-new virus is that messages
LifehackerJun 23 2020
Opinion
America Is Too Broken to Fight the Coronavirus
No other developed country is doing so badly.
Graphs of the coronavirus curves in Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy look like mountains, with steep climbs up and then back down. The one for America shows a fast climb up to a plateau. For a while, the number of new cases in the U.S. was at least slowly declining. Now, according to The Times, it’s up a terrifying 22 percent over the last
Michelle GoldbergJul 16 2020
News
Florida's coronavirus outbreak is getting worse
Between the lines: Deaths lag several weeks behind new cases, and cases are skyrocketing.
The state on Sunday announced more than 15,000 new cases, shattering the single-day case records in New York and California. Florida now has more confirmed cases, adjusted for population, than New York ever had — although New York's true caseload was almost certainly multiple times higher than its
AxiosJun 30 2020
News
Can the developing world endure the coronavirus?
When the coronavirus first began spreading from China to the rest of the world, public health experts issued dire warnings about the toll the virus would take on poor countries. The United Nations predicted in early April that as many as 3.3 million people in Africa may die from COVID-19. Philanthropist Melinda Gates warned of “bodies out on the street” on the continent. Similarly dire
Yahoo! The 360Sep 22 2021
Data
10 facts about Americans and coronavirus vaccines
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 670,000 lives in the United States as of Sept. 20, and the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant has added new urgency to the federal government’s efforts to vaccinate all Americans against the virus. As the drive to inoculate more people continues, here are 10 facts about Americans and COVID-19 vaccines, based on an August Pew Research
Pew Research CenterMay 22 2020
Analysis
Is America too libertarian to deal with the coronavirus?
Why widespread testing in the country may not work.
America’s public health experts are working hard to map out a plan to combat the coronavirus in America. And there are indeed many proposals — from academic centers, from think tanks, and from the government.
While the plans differ, nearly all of them rely on some combination of surveillance, mass testing, isolation, and contact
VoxMay 11 2020
News
Coronavirus in the White House: Is the President At Risk?
Trump administration officials say Vice President Mike Pence will be at the White House today despite an earlier report he would be working from home and self-isolating after an aide tested positive for the Coronavirus last week.
Even though the vice president will be on the job, administration officials say Pence is voluntarily keeping his distance from other people.
Pence has
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