Sweden hoped herd immunity would curb COVID-19. Don't do what we did. It's not working.
Wherever measures have been lenient, though, death rates have peaked.
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Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data
The new instructions were posted recently in a little-noticed document on the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on, the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.
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Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data
The new instructions were posted recently in a little-noticed document on the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on, the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.
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How Many Sick Children and Teachers Are Worth It? What About Dead Ones?
It’s time to face the harsh reality that as parents we’re being asked to make an impossible choice by an administration that has made nothing but the wrong ones from the start. It bungled containing the virus early on, screwed up testing, took a hard right into liberating states once people's hair got long, and now, at the start of a giant new wave of cases, is taking the same tactic with schools that it did with everything else: deny reality.
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The Coronavirus Crisis Inside Prisons Won’t Stay Behind Bars
Currently, the nation’s top five Covid-19 hot spots are all correctional facilities, according to data collected by The Times. The number of infected inmates and workers has topped 70,000 — the count doubled between mid-May and mid-June — and there have been at least 627 virus-related deaths.
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Team Trump Says It Was a COVID Testing ‘Joke.’ His Own Health Officials Aren’t Laughing.
White House officials and President Donald Trump loyalists tried on Sunday to walk back remarks he made over the weekend in which he told rally-goers that he had asked officials to slow COVID-19 testing so as to decrease the number of confirmed cases in the U.S.
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Team Trump Says It Was a COVID Testing ‘Joke.’ His Own Health Officials Aren’t Laughing.
White House officials and President Donald Trump loyalists tried on Sunday to walk back remarks he made over the weekend in which he told rally-goers that he had asked officials to slow COVID-19 testing so as to decrease the number of confirmed cases in the U.S.
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A looming deadline for tens of millions of Americans
The GOP battles over a trillion-dollar stimulus deal. Ahead of the November election, President Trump guts a landmark environmental law. And, how to avoid a devastating potential kink in the vaccine supply chain.
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Number of Texans hospitalized with coronavirus hits all-time high as experts say cases are likely to continue increasing
For the third day in a row, Texas has reported a record number of patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus, a metric Gov. Greg Abbott has said he’s watching as businesses continue reopening and limits on their operations are loosened.
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Number of Texans hospitalized with coronavirus hits all-time high as experts say cases are likely to continue increasing
For the third day in a row, Texas has reported a record number of patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus, a metric Gov. Greg Abbott has said he’s watching as businesses continue reopening and limits on their operations are loosened.