Wall Street Journal (January 15)
“Rising temperatures last year capped the world’s warmest decade in modern times.” Moreover, according to the same NASA findings, 2020 tied with 2016 as the hottest year ever. This came “despite cooling ocean currents and a drop in greenhouse gas emissions” associate with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags: 2016, 2020, Cooling, COVID-19, Emissions, GHG, NASA, Ocean currents, Pandemic, Rising temperatures, Warmest decade, World
MarketWatch (January 13)
“The U.S. set another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, when more than 4,400 COVID-19 patients died, the most in a single day since the start of the outbreak, and experts said that with cases continuing to accelerate, the worst is still to come.” Simply put, the “vaccine program must speed up to avoid reaching 640,000 deaths by spring, equal to lives lost in the 1918 flu pandemic.”
Philadelphia Inquirer (January 12)
“One year into a changed world, the numbers defy comprehension. More than 21 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States—a rate approaching one in 15 people, plus untold millions who had mild or no symptoms and were never identified.” Including them, the U.S. may be “approaching 60 million or 70 million infections—perhaps 20% of the population, though it varies from state to state.”
Tags: Changed world, Confirmed cases, COVID-19, Identified, Infections, Rate, Symptoms, U.S.
CNN (January 8)
“The United States reported 3,865 Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, the highest number of deaths reported in a single day since the pandemic began. The nation’s death toll as of Thursday stands at more than 364,600… while the number of people who have been infected has topped more than 21.53 million.”
Washington Post (January 3)
“Despite the president’s denials, the nation’s death toll surpassed a grim milestone Sunday of more than 350,000…. The nation topped or neared 200,000 reported cases for the sixth straight day Sunday. More than 125,000 people are battling covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, in hospitals across the country.”
San Francisco Chronicle (December 30)
“With hospitals across California at capacity and COVID-19 cases skyrocketing, the state has become the epicenter of the nation’s latest coronavirus surge despite aggressive measures to restrict movement and save hospital space.” On Monday, California hit a new record of 66,811 fresh cases. “As of Wednesday, California reported 99.3 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past seven days, far exceeding all other states.”
Tags: Aggressive, California, Capacity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epicenter, Hospital space, Hospitals, Movement, Skyrocketing, Surge
New York Times (December 18)
“Rising Covid-19 cases are taking a steep toll on economic activity, battering the labor market even as new vaccines offer a ray of hope for next year.” After dropping earlier in autumn, jobless claims “have moved higher, and they remain at levels that dwarf the pace of past recessions.” New restrictions are hammering “the hospitality industry, lodging, airlines and other service businesses…. Until mass inoculations begin next year, the economy will remain under pressure.”
Tags: Airlines, Battering, COVID-19, Economic activity, Hope, Hospitality, Jobless claims, Labor market, Lodging, Recessions, Restrictions, Toll, Vaccines
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
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.
