by Jim Heath | Oct 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Hospitals across the US – including in the Great Plains, the Midwest and the Southwest – are seeing record highs of COVID-19 patients. As of today, more than 44,000 people were hospitalized as the country deals with a third wave of the coronavirus...
by Jim Heath | Oct 27, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
Donald Trump is the King of Lies, but this one, with just a week to go until the election, could be the biggest one yet. The White House science office has listed “ending the COVID-19 pandemic” as the top accomplishment of President Trump’s first...
by Jim Heath | Oct 26, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The US has set a record for new coronavirus cases reported in a single week with more than 481,300 infections, as the virus continues to surge across the Midwest and the South. The seven-day moving average of new daily cases stood at 68,767 after Sunday – the...
by Jim Heath | Oct 25, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Joe Biden
A tweet sent by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden warning about a pandemic was trending on Twitter today, the one-year anniversary of the post. “We are not prepared for a pandemic,” Biden tweeted on Oct. 25, 2019, saying the country needs leadership that...
by Jim Heath | Oct 25, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Back in April, President Trump picked out a single computer model of coronavirus spread as his oracle of choice. Unsurprisingly, that simulation initially had rosier estimates than other algorithms, projecting many fewer Covid-19 deaths — and its unconventional...
by Jim Heath | Oct 24, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The U.S. set a new record for new coronavirus cases in a single day Friday as the country undergoes an alarming new surge in infections. According to the COVID Tracking Project’s tally, there were more than 83,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the country...
