coronavirus by the numbers
PoliticsYahoo NewsBiden touts delivery of 100 million COVID-19 shots 'weeks ahead of schedule'
President Biden announced that he would reach his goal of having 100 million coronavirus vaccine shots administered to Americans on Friday, well ahead of schedule.
HealthYahoo NewsAmid COVID surge, experts look for ways to stretch vaccine supplies: The case for postponing the second shot
The fear is that America’s vaccine distribution system is too sluggish to stop a raging pandemic driven by new, more transmissible variants.
HealthYahoo NewsMillions of Americans are still saying they won't get the new COVID-19 vaccines. Four reasons that may not be a problem.
Despite widespread hesitancy, there are new signs of hope that vaccine uptake will reach the threshold required to decisively slow transmission and end the pandemic in 2021.
HealthYahoo News'Third wave' COVID cases are falling in the Upper Midwest. Will the rest of America follow?
Throughout the hard-hit states of the Upper Midwest and northern Plains, coronavirus case counts have been falling for weeks.
U.S.Yahoo NewsPost-holiday COVID-19 data spells a grim forecast for the rest of the year
By rounding up data from a few sources — previous holiday spikes, current travel patterns, cellphone proximity trackers and various pandemic forecasting models — it’s possible to get a rough start on predicting what to expect in the weeks ahead. The early numbers are worrisome.
HealthYahoo NewsCrushed by COVID-19, rural red states finally start to mandate masks. It may be too little, too late.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds finally issued a mask mandate in response to the state's alarming COVID-19 spread rate. Unfortunately, it's probably too late.
HealthYahoo NewsYahoo News/YouGov Poll: As COVID-19 cases soar, many Americans plan indoor Thanksgiving with friends or extended family
Right now, amid a worsening pandemic, a majority of American voters are at least considering joining friends or family indoors on Nov. 26, which would be an uncomfortable amount of normal in a time we can't really afford it.
PoliticsYahoo NewsWisconsin is battling America's worst coronavirus outbreak, and the state's broken politics are partly to blame
The state GOP’s relentless campaign to delegitimize pandemic precautions as partisan overreach has restricted the government’s ability to address a worsening crisis.
U.S.Yahoo NewsAfter declining for months, U.S. coronavirus cases are rising again. Has the 'fall wave' begun?
Though it might be too soon to say whether a fall wave has begun, it’s not too soon to see the recent rise in U.S. cases for what it is: a warning.
HealthYahoo NewsA new COVID-19 forecast predicts more than 400,000 deaths by the end of 2020. Will the fall wave really be that big?
Experts have long feared that colder weather and other factors could create a fall wave of the coronavirus with the potential to dwarf previous peaks — and America’s most prominent COVID-19 modelers are projecting just that. So is it time to freak out about the fall? Maybe not just yet.
PoliticsYahoo NewsWhy Trump should wait until after the election to announce a COVID-19 vaccine
In recent days, experts have become increasingly convinced — and alarmed — that President Trump is pushing to cut corners and rush the release of a COVID-19 vaccine before Nov. 3 to improve his chances in the election.
HealthYahoo NewsThe conspiracy theorists are wrong: Doctors are not inflating America's COVID-19 death toll for cash
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has embraced a false online conspiracy theory that seeks to minimize the danger of COVID-19 by claiming only a few thousand Americans have died from the virus — not the 185,000 reported by health agencies and hospitals.
HealthYahoo NewsMost of the coronavirus tests the U.S. does are worthless. But there's a solution that could actually work — and stop the spread.
Although President Trump is correct that the U.S. has conducted more tests than any other country, it’s not testing enough, given the scale of its outbreak. But there might be a simple solution: new tests that prioritize speed over sensitivity.
HealthYahoo NewsYahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll: Number of Americans who plan to get vaccinated falls to 42% — a new low
The outlook for universal vaccination is clouded by political considerations from both sides: skepticism about medical authority and expertise on one side, and suspicions on the other that the administration is cutting corners on safety to rush a vaccine into production before the election.
PoliticsYahoo NewsThese 13 states need to lock down now, according to Harvard coronavirus experts
A report released 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. But new guidelines from Harvard University show the task force's recommendations may be too weak to suppress the virus.
U.S.Yahoo NewsThe coronavirus curves are starting to flatten — again. But complacency now could prove deadly.
There’s no evidence from the rest of the world that relying on people to behave themselves can actually suppress the coronavirus to a manageable level, as opposed to merely slowing its spread. So far, only lockdowns have done that.
PoliticsYahoo NewsOn coronavirus, Trump insists the U.S. has the world's 'No. 1 low mortality rate.' He's wrong — and it's the wrong way to measure success.
The problem with President Trump’s new strategy is that his prized data point is a mirage — an illusion that dissolves under closer inspection, revealing the opposite of the “success” it’s supposed to show.
ScienceYahoo NewsIt's too late for masks alone to turn the tide on coronavirus. Why the U.S. needs to lock down hot spots right away.
Masks are necessary to combat America’s resurgent coronavirus pandemic. But they may no longer be enough. Patterns from countries that are faring much better than the U.S. suggest we won’t bring the virus to heel until we start locking down hot spots as well.
HealthYahoo NewsTrump boasted of falling COVID-19 deaths as a sign of success. Now they're rising again.
As the coronavirus has made its alarming American comeback in recent weeks — with dozens of states across the South and West regularly reporting record numbers of new cases and propelling the nationwide total of new daily infections past 50,000 for the first time — President Trump and others have sought to downplay the disturbing data by reciting a simple refrain: Yes, but what about the deaths?
HealthYahoo NewsAs COVID-19 makes a comeback, so will lockdowns
With more tests coming back positive now than ever before — and with infections currently rising in 39 states — lockdowns in some form may be the only way to regain control over the coronavirus.
U.S.Yahoo NewsRacial and economic inequality are supercharging the coronavirus surge in states like California
California locked down aggressively and never dismissed the threat. Yet now it’s being mentioned in the same breath as Florida, Arizona and Texas, states suffering new outbreaks. What went wrong?
HealthYahoo NewsAs COVID cases fall in Europe, calls to ban travel from America rise. What the EU got right about controlling coronavirus.
The potential ban not only underscores how much worse the U.S. outbreak has gotten in recent days. It also highlights how much better the EU is currently doing than the U.S. But why?
HealthYahoo NewsThe emerging face of COVID: Younger patients, more cases, but fewer deaths
Case counts are climbing in more than 20 states. But so far COVID-19 death counts have not been climbing along with them. Is that because patients are starting to skew younger?
U.S.Yahoo NewsTrump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.' Why he's dangerously wrong.
Florida has certainly been finding more cases. On June 1, Florida’s seven-day average stood at 726 cases per day. As of June 15, it had more than doubled to 1,775. However, Florida has been conducting roughly the same average number of COVID-19 tests every day for the last month.
HealthYahoo NewsCoronavirus cases are climbing again in the South and the West. Will crowded protests spark bigger outbreaks?
As people across all 50 states continue to gather to protest police brutality and systemic racism, the question is whether this will spark a COVID-19 resurgence right when the U.S. seemed to be getting its epidemic under control.
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