San Francisco Chronicle (August 10)
“A troubling trend has emerged in the Bay Area and around the nation: More young people are getting sick, in numbers so large that in some regions they now make up the largest and fastest-growing demographic contracting the virus.” Although are far less likely to die of COVID-19, youths with milder symptoms often risk exposing others and many of them still wind up with “symptoms severe enough to send them to the emergency room or intensive care.”
Tags: Bay Area, COVID-19, Demographic, Die, Emergency room, Fastest-growing, Risk, Sick, Symptoms, Trend, Troubling, Young people
Washington Post (April 2)
For weeks President Trump “talked nonsense….. The failure to prepare and the foot-dragging that has followed will mean … more people will get sick and die. Yes, those deaths — the losses that could have been prevented by sane, sensible decisions his own advisers were urging — are on Trump’s head. No amount of spin will absolve him of that responsibility.”
Tags: Absolve, Deaths, Failure, Foot-dragging, Losses, Nonsense, Prepare, Sane, Sensible, Sick, Spin, Trump
Financial Times (February 13)
“Greece is as sick as ever and its agony goes on and on…. Barring wholly improbable changes in the politics of European crisis management, Greece will earn the unwanted distinction by late 2019 of having spent more of its eurozone existence in an intensive care unit than outside.”
Tags: Agony, Crisis management, eurozone, Greece, Intensive care, Sick
The New York Times (September 7)
“The widening epidemic of Ebola in West Africa looks worse with each passing day. The outbreaks…have outstripped the ability of humanitarian groups and fragile government health systems to treat the sick and slow the spread.”
Tags: Ebola, Epidemic, Government, Health systems, Humanitarian, Outbreaks, Outstripped, Sick, Spread, West Africa
