Category: current events
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jhu update 8
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:52 am: There were 1,131,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 59,884 deaths. In the U.S. there were 278,458 confirmed cases, twenty-five percent of the world’s total and 32,885 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 7,159 deaths from COVID-19, twelve percent of… Read.
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jhu update 7
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:02 am: There were 1,026,974 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 53,975 deaths. In the U.S. there were 245,573 confirmed cases, twenty-four percent of the world’s total and 28,851 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 6,058 deaths from COVID-19, more than eleven… Read.
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jhu update 6
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:21 pm: There were 1,011,490 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 52,863 deaths. In the U.S. there were 242,182 confirmed cases, more than one-quarter of the world’s total and 28,810 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 5,850 deaths from COVID-19, about eleven… Read.
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jhu update 5
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 4:21 am: There were 941,949 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 47,522 deaths. In the U.S. there were 216,722 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total and 27,089 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 5,137 deaths from COVID-19, about eleven percent… Read.
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jhu update 4
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:05 pm: There were 932,605 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 46,809 deaths. In the U.S. there were 213,372 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total and 29,189 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 4,757 deaths from COVID-19, about ten percent… Read.
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jhu update 3
From the Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:14 am: There were 873,767 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 43,288 deaths. In the U.S. there were 189,633 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total and 25,223 more than this time yesterday. The U.S. accounted for 4,081 deaths from COVID-19, about nine percent… Read.
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12 hrs later
It’s twelve hours since the last time I checked the Johns Hopkins live map; let’s see how the world’s doing. (This info comes from the update at 5:05 this afternoon.) There were 855,007 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 41,654 deaths. In the U.S. there were 184,183 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the… Read.
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the answer is yes
Asked whether Americans should be prepared for 100,000 people in the U.S. to die from COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said point-blank, “The answer is yes.” “As sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much?… Read.
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missed
Missed yesterday’s covid-19 update. Oops. The Johns Hopkins live map, updated at 5:30 this morning, indicated there were 800,049 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world and 38,714 deaths. At the same time in the U.S. there were 164,410 confirmed cases, almost one-quarter of the world’s total. The U.S. accounted for 3,170 deaths from COVID-19,… Read.
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Day 15
It’s Day 15 of shelter in place at the O’Folks Home, counting from the Sunday after we flew back from Florida. We are both still free of any of the red-flag symptoms of Covid-19, and I’m pretty sure we owe that to the fact that we’ve stayed in our little red house virtually 24/7 since… Read.
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