Plain Dealer (September 28)
“The Cleveland Clinic is now seeing its highest volume of COVID-19 patients since last winter” and looks likely to worsen. “The Clinic’s forecasts predict the highest volumes of COVID-19 patients will come in the next several weeks, as this current pandemic wave peaks in northern Ohio.”
Tags: Cleveland Clinic, COVID-19, Forecasts, Highest, Ohio, Pandemic, Patients, Peaks, Volume, Wave, Winter, Worsen
San Francisco Chronicle (May 9)
“As much as the Warriors’ Stephen Curry and Draymond Green would love to compete for Team USA, with Steve Kerr an assistant on coach Gregg Popovich’s staff, they can’t even begin to imagine what it might be like, in Japan, with the coronavirus pandemic still raging worldwide….
The IOC should be more than merely concerned about the developments of Saturday, when Japan registered more than 7,000 new COVID-19 cases, the country’s highest total since January, due to a rapidly spreading fourth wave driven by more contagious and deadlier variants of the virus.”
Tags: Compete, Contagious, COVID-19, Curry, Deadlier, Fourth wave, Green, Highest, IOC, Japan, Kerr, Pandemic, Raging, Team USA, Variants, Warriors
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.”
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.
Boston Globe (October 23)
In yet “another ominous virus sign,” confirmed new COVID-19 cases “in Massachusetts jumped by 986 Thursday—the highest count of new cases in nearly five months—as more than 20 percent of the state’s cities and towns were designated high-risk for the virus.”
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.”
