Washington Post (December 4)
“About 1 in 420 Americans has died of covid-19, according to official data. And we’re still averaging more than 1,000 deaths per day,” but areas with “widespread vaccination” are faring much better. “Death rates are far below the national average in the most-vaccinated, often-urban areas.”
Tags: Death rates, Faring, Most-vaccinated, National average, U.S., Urban areas, Vaccination, Widespread
Los Angeles Times (October 21)
“As more communities across California require proof of vaccination at many retailers and other public venues, the battle over enforcement of the new rules is just beginning to heat up.” Though “many businesses have welcomed these sorts of rules,” others resent the additional burden enforcement places on them in terms of time and staffing requirements, as well as the potential for conflict.
Tags: Burden, California, Communities, Enforcement, Proof, Public venues, Retailers, Rules, Staffing, Time, Vaccination
USA Today (August 20)
“From the earliest days of the pandemic, public health officials told Americans that vaccination was the way back to normal life, but the path forward has become less clear. While COVID-19 vaccines were delivered in record time, the promise of vaccine salvation was upended by entrenched hesitancy, waning immunity and a wildly contagious mutation of the enigmatic virus that causes the disease.”
Tags: COVID-19, Hesitancy, Immunity, Normal, Officials, Pandemic, Promise, Public health, U.S., Upended, Vaccination, Vaccine salvation
Bloomberg (August 13)
“It seems like Japan’s big recovery is always a quarter away.” The economy may just barely manage growth in the second quarter, but the slow vaccination rollout and ongoing surges mean “the bounce in consumer spending that analysts had been forecasting will have to wait even longer.” Japan has earned “the dubious distinction of being the only G-7 economy to have its growth outlook for this year cut by the International Monetary Fund.”
Tags: Analysts, Bounce, Consumer spending, Economy, G-7, Growth, IMF, Japan, Outlook, Q2, Recovery, Surges, Vaccination
New York Times (May 18)
“With much of the country under a state of emergency and deaths climbing,” Japan’s “yo-yoing economic pattern” is expected to continue “until the country has vaccinated a significant portion of its population.” Given the “plodding” pace of its vaccination program, this “dynamic could potentially push the country back into recession — defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction — later this year, as it struggles to check the spread of deadlier and more contagious coronavirus variants.”
Tags: Contagious, Contraction, Coronavirus, Deadlier, Deaths, Economy, Japan, Recession, Spread, State of emergency, Struggles, Vaccination, Yo-yoing
Mercury News (May 12)
“From Mexico to far-flung Argentina, thousands of Latin Americans are booking flights to the United States to take advantage of one of the world’s most successful vaccination campaigns, as rollouts in their own countries sputter.” The increased demand is evident. “Flight prices from Mexico to the United States have risen an average of 30%-40% since mid-March.”
Tags: Argentina, Boomed, Campaign, Demand, Flight prices, Flights, Latin America, Mexico, Rollouts, Sputter, U.S., Vaccination
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
