COVID-19 Deaths Are 25 Percent Higher Than in Any Other Week
Hospitalization data do offer a small glimmer of hope this week: Although current hospitalizations are up week over week, a slight flattening in the numbers...
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Rapid Coronavirus Testing Is Missing From State Data
The value of antigen tests is based on a simple tradeoff. They’re not as sensitive as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which are the gold...
The Next Phase of Vaccination Will Be Even Harder
Read: Where year two of the pandemic will take us That work has largely fallen to states, which have traditionally organized vaccination campaigns, such as...
COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations Are at an All-Time High
As the national media converged on Georgia before the state’s Senate runoffs on Tuesday, COVID-19 hospitalizations there continued to rise sharply and are now the...
Listen: The Vaccine Is Here! What Now?
Wells: Mitch wrote in asking about COVID and pregnancy. His wife works in a rehab hospital that takes COVID-positive patients, and he says they’re expecting...
America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The resulting database is a patchwork, built from the individual components that each state’s data systems capture and from the numbers that local political leaders...
The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West
At the national level, we’re seeing mixed indicators: Reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have declined very slightly since last Wednesday, while reported tests declined...
Nursing-Home Residents Await the COVID-19 Vaccine
She missed seeing her children in person; she’d tried a window visit with her daughter, Christie, who lives in town, but it felt too strange...
COVID-19 Deaths Keep Rising – The Atlantic
Our count of U.S. COVID-19 deaths currently stands at 298,823, and will almost certainly reach 300,000 this week. It’s worth noting that from March through...
COVID Vaccine Purgatory: How and When You’ll Get a Vaccine
The last stage of purgatory will be getting vaccines to the general public. Some parts of the country may allow everyone to get the vaccine...