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Virus wipes out 5 years of U.S economic growth

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:53 — mike kraft

The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday as the government detailed the most devastating three-month collapse on record, which wiped away nearly five years of growth.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced, fell 9.5 percent in the second quarter of the year as consumers cut back spending, businesses pared investments and global trade dried up, the Commerce Department said.

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Coronavirus hotspots ease, but officials warn normal is a long way off

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:26 — mike kraft
Coronavirus hotspots ease, but officials warn normal is a long way off The number of new coronavirus infections in some of the states hit hardest by the pandemic in the last month is easing, but public health officials warn that widespread transmission is still taking Reid Wilson TheHill
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Trump planning for U.S. rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:04 — mike kraft
Trump planning for U.S. rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration's lack of planning for its nationwide distribution. Richard Cowan U.S.
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XPrize to give $5 million to creator of cheap, fast COVID-19 testing

Thu, 2020-07-30 21:28 — mike kraft
XPrize to give $5 million to creator of cheap, fast COVID-19 testing Google and Amazon are backing it, among others. Shannon Connellan Mashable

Tech giants including Google and Amazon pledged support for a $5 million competition to accelerate cheap and fast COVID-19 testing in the U.S.

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Children may carry coronavirus at high levels, study finds

Thu, 2020-07-30 21:06 — mike kraft
Children may carry coronavirus at high levels, study finds Infected children have at least as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults, according to the research. Indeed, children younger than age 5 may host up to 100 times as much of the virus in the upper respiratory tract as adults, the authors found. Apoorva Mandavilli chicagotribune.com
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Trump urges people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate blood plasma

Thu, 2020-07-30 20:36 — mike kraft
Trump urges people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate blood plasma Blood plasma from people who have successfully recovered from coronavirus infection has been widely used in the United States, even though researchers are still gathering evidence to definitively show it works. Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post
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These 13 states need to lock down now, according to Harvard coronavirus experts

Thu, 2020-07-30 13:57 — mike kraft

A report released this week by the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force warns that 21 states are now in the “red zone” and need to take aggressive steps to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

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Trends show young adults exposing elders to the virus

Thu, 2020-07-30 11:18 — mike kraft
Young people are infecting older family members in shared homes Front-line caregivers are seeing more older people with covid-19. Young working adults and others who went to bars and restaurants are spreading the virus to relatives. Lenny Bernstein Washington Post
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Where states reopened and cases spiked after the U.S. shutdown

Thu, 2020-07-30 09:23 — mike kraft
Map: Which states are reopening and closing again after coronavirus shutdown Hundreds of millions of people started moving around again. Now, a surge is here, with new restrictions. Washington Post Staff, Ann Gerhart, Thomas Johnson, Monica Ulmanu, Chris Alcantara, Matthew Callahan, Leslie Shapiro, Jacqueline Dupree Washington Post
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County by county chart of COVID-19 in the U.S.

Thu, 2020-07-30 08:54 — mike kraft
The novel coronavirus in the U.S. How COVID-19 has spread across the U.S. Samuel Hart Reuters
Tracking the novel coronavirus in the U.S.
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