Wall Street Journal (July 30)
“Deaths in the U.S. from the new coronavirus topped 150,000 on Wednesday, with the country leading the globe in the number of cases and fatalities.”
Tags: Cases, Coronavirus, Deaths, Leading, U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle (July 27)
Half a year into the pandemic, a “role reversal of sorts” took places for the giants of the east and west coasts. “California passed New York with the most coronavirus cases in the United States. That grim convergence occurred as the nation reached its own dark milestone: 4 million reported cases. California, as of Sunday, has about 452,000 cases, to New York’s 412,000.” With about 425,000 cases, Florida has also passed the Big Apple.
Tags: California, Coasts, Coronavirus, Grim, Milestone, New York, Pandemic, Reversal, U.S.
New York Times (July 25)
The U.S. recorded over 73,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday. “California. South Carolina. North Dakota, Kentucky. Hawaii. Those are among the 18 states that set single-day case records in the last week, putting the country on track to breaking a national single-day record for new coronavirus cases set less than two weeks ago.”
Tags: California, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hawaii, Kentucky, North Dakota, Record, Single-day, South Carolina, U.S.
Washington Post (July 20)
“Six months after the coronavirus appeared in America, the nation has failed spectacularly to contain it. The country’s ineffective response has shocked observers around the planet.” Though many other “countries have rigorously driven infection rates nearly to zero,” in the U.S. “coronavirus transmission is out of control. The national response is fragmented, shot through with political rancor and culture-war divisiveness.”
Tags: Contain, Coronavirus, Culture war, Divisiveness, Failed, Fragmented, Ineffective, Infection rates, Out of control, Rancor, Response, Shocked, Spectacularly, Transmission, U.S.
Washington Post (July 15)
“All signs suggest it’s closing on his presidency because of his world-class incompetence with the coronavirus pandemic, the protracted economic collapse that resulted, and the increasingly overt racism Trump has embraced.
Tags: Coronavirus, Economic collapse, Incompetence, Pandemic, Presidency, Racism, Signs, Trump
San Francisco Chronicle (July 13)
“A vaccine may not be enough to end the coronavirus pandemic and restore society to some semblance of normalcy.” Effective treatments may prove just as important. “Researchers across the globe are racing to find drugs that can keep more people alive and out of the hospital—and any one of those treatments may ultimately work just as well as a vaccine.”
Tags: Alive, Coronavirus, Drugs, Effective, Hospital, Normalcy, Pandemic, Researchers, Restore, Society, Treatments, Vaccine
Tampa Bay Times (July 13)
“Florida by far broke the national record for the number of coronavirus cases reported in one day on Sunday. The 15,3000 case count was the highest number reported by a state in a single day since the start of the pandemic.” The surge has people “declaring Florida the new epicenter of the coronavirus.”
The Plain Dealer (July 1)
“Ohio experienced a decrease in the mortality rate for the coronavirus over the past three months” as more new infections are attributed to young people. That’s not the only reason, however, as the mortality rate for those over 60 has dropped from 23% in April to 7.4% in June. Factors likely include “earlier testing for the virus and steroid treatments that have helped hospitalized patients.”
Tags: Coronavirus, Decrease, Hospitalized, Infections, Mortality rate, Ohio, Patients, Steroid treatments, Testing, Virus, Young
Washington Post (June 29)
“The road to a successful reopening of the U.S. economy is strewn with hopeful intentions — and formidable obstacles. The biggest and most important obstacle is a surge in new coronavirus cases, which presumably will lead to more hospitalizations and more deaths as well as more firms shutting down.”
Tags: Coronavirus, Deaths, Economy, Formidable, Hopeful, Hospitalizations, Intentions, Obstacles, Reopening, Successful, Surge, U.S.
Wall Street Journal (June 22)
“Giant companies from McDonald’s Corp. to Intel Corp. are husbanding cash, cutting costs and tapping debt, all moves that bolster their resilience amid persistent uncertainty wrought by the new coronavirus.” Looking ahead, they are also trying to figure out “when it will make sense to economize less and spend more to avoid losing out to rivals once the recovery begins in earnest.”
Tags: Cash, Coronavirus, Costs, Debt, Economize, Intel, McDonald's, Recovery, Resilience, Rivals, Uncertainty
