More than 100,000 people in the US have now died of the coronavirus. 1/29 Public health experts say the CDC's new COVID-19 death rate estimates are too low, and accuse the agency of bowing to political pressure to minimize the deadliness of the coronavirus. 2/
Latin America is now the center of the global pandemic, with cases surging in Brazil. Meanwhile, India begins loosening restrictions. In Russia, statistics show signs of fraud. 1/24 A live-tracking map shows where the coronavirus outbreak is growing in the United States, and where it’s slowing down.
Please note: We'll be off through the holiday weekend, and will return on Wednesday morning. See you then! Beijing will impose new security legislation for Hong Kong. It's China's most aggressive move to curtail civil liberties for Hong Kong residents since the city'
State officials in Florida, Arizona, and Georgia get caught censoring scientists and/or providing questionable COVID-19 case data. 1/21 Florida's top data scientist says she was ousted for refusing to manually change data "to drum up support for the plan to reopen." 2/21
As of today, all 50 US states have begun easing coronavirus restrictions. 1/23 States are facing accusations of manipulating COVID-19 data in order to support reopening plans. 2/23 "They've already been vetted. But they need to be put on the screens." GOP advisors
The UK announces a new post-Brexit tariff regime to replace the European Union’s external tariff. 1/23 A Federalist approach to reopening the United States by July 4 would require color-coded zones across the country and testing, testing, testing. 2/23 With the pandemic still spreading fast,
Nearly 90,000 people in the US have now died of COVID-19. 1/17 The White House introduces a plan to develop and manufacture hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of the year. 2/17 Brazil now has the fourth-highest number of confirmed
Graphs show which US states are seeing COVID-19 cases increasing or decreasing. 1/18 See also: Where coronavirus hospitalizations are rising and falling. 2/18 This week the Senate came within one vote of upending part of the Patriot Act's warrantless browser spying. 3/18 With work-
Russia now has the second-highest number of reported coronavirus cases in the world, behind the US. 1/24 Mexico is said to be severely undercounting its virus deaths. Meanwhile, New Zealand is reopening businesses and schools after three straight days of no new cases. 2/24 Lithuania, Latvia, and
Wisconsin's Supreme Court overturns the state's stay-at-home orders and limits the governor's powers to implement future restrictions. 1/20 The FBI has seized Sen. Burr's phone in a federal probe into his stock sales during the early weeks of the
