Economic Times (December 21)
“The United Kingdom has endured in one form or another for hundreds of years but between Brexit and the coronavirus, the country is creaking and some suggest it may be on the verge of breaking up entirely.”
Tags: Breaking up, Brexit, Coronavirus, Creaking, Endured, UK
The Denver Post (December 15)
“A quarter of Colorado’s nearly 4,000 coronavirus-related deaths came in just three weeks between mid-November and early December, and the remnants of this fall’s record surge of infections may not be gone yet.”
Tags: Colorado, Coronavirus, Deaths, December, Fall, Infections, November, Record surge, U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle (December 15)
“Even as the first precious caches of coronavirus vaccine arrived in counties across California Monday, the pandemic showed no signs of abating, with hospitals straining under an influx of COVID-19 patients and deaths climbing across the state and region.”
Tags: Abating, California, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hospitals, Influx, Pandemic, Patients, Precious, Straining, Vaccine
Chicago Tribune (December 15)
“Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths.”
Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Deaths, Defeat, Health care, Heartbreaking, Reality 300, U.S., Vaccination, Workers
Washington Post (December 11)
“The novel coronavirus will kill more people in the United States every day for the next two to three months than died in the attacks on 9/11…. The stark warning came as the United States set a new record for fatalities in a single day for the second day in a row, surpassing 3,300 deaths Thursday and bringing the nation’s total covid-19 death toll to more than 291,800.”
Tags: Coronavirus, Fatalities, Record, Stark, U.S. 9/11, Warning
Boston Globe (December 8)
“Coronavirus cases are reaching record highs. Hospitals are overflowing in several parts of the country…. But as the final weeks of 2020 begin to mirror the grim, early weeks of the pandemic, the shelter-in-place orders and strict industry regulations that helped flatten the curve in the spring are almost nowhere to be found. Instead, public officials are pursuing another approach to managing the virus’s spread: a plea for personal responsibility.”
Tags: Cases, Coronavirus, Curve, Flatten, Grim, Hospitals, Officials, Overflowing, Pandemic, Personal responsibility, Plea, Record, Regulations, Shelter-in-place, Strict
Market Watch (December 8)
“The global tally for confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose above 67.6 million on Tuesday… while the death toll rose above 1.5 million.” The U.S., which hit an all-time weekly high of 2,249 deaths from COVID-19, “has the highest case tally in the world at 14.9 million and the highest death toll at 283,746, or more than a fifth of the global total.”
Tags: Cases, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Death toll, Highest, U.S.
WARC (December 3)
With the “coronavirus in check,” China’s economy “is showing increasing signs of recovery.” This now extends to alcohol sales. “As social distancing rules and dining out restrictions are eased, brewers and distillers report increased demand, and the Chinese consumer, it seems, has a thirst in particular for premium brands.” The “growing penchant for premium products” is happily in step with the Government, which is promoting them as “a key driver of the country’s economic recovery.”
Tags: Alcohol, Brewers, China, Consumer, Coronavirus, Demand, Dining out, Distillers, Eased, Economy, Recovery, Restrictions, Sales, Social distancing
LA Times (December 2)
“Los Angeles County recorded a dramatic one-day rise in coronavirus cases Tuesday, shattering the single-day record and confirming some of the most dire forecasts about infections spreading ferociously as the holiday season gets underway.”
Tags: Cases, Coronavirus, Dire, Dramatic, Forecasts, Infections, Los Angeles, Record, Shattering, Spreading
Orange County Register (December 2)
“Disney will lay off more than 11,500 Disneyland and Disney California Adventure employees as the company continues to struggle with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the eight-month closure of its Anaheim theme parks.” Even with the approaching vaccine, “the 11,572 Disneyland layoffs add to a grim and growing tally that last stood at 10,000 terminations.”
Tags: Anaheim, Closure, Coronavirus, Disney, Disneyland, Employees, Layoffs, Pandemic, Struggle, Theme parks
