People stand in line for COVID-19 testing at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Morrisania. | David Dee Delgado/Getty Images It’s hard to tell from watching President Donald Trump and members of his Coronavirus Task Force just how many people can be tested for coronavirus in the U.S. and whether there’s enough testing capacity to reopen…
an analysis by William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Even slightly smaller metro areas, like Houston, Washington, D.C., and Miami grew more slowly than before. In all, growth in the country’s major metropolitan areas fell by nearly half over the course of the past decade, Mr. Frey found.Now, as local leaders contemplate how…
The coronavirus is spreading from America’s biggest cities to its suburbs, and has begun encroaching on the nation’s rural regions. The virus is believed to have infected millions of citizens and has killed more than 34,000. Yet President Donald Trump this past week proposed guidelines for reopening the economy and suggested that a swath of…
we underestimate the virus, it will find us.More Americans may die than the White House admits.ImageRefrigerated trucks were used as mobile morgues on Randall’s Island in New York.Credit...Misha Friedman for The New York TimesCovid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, is arguably the leading cause of death in the United States right now. The virus…
The United States has now reported more than 672,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 30,000 deaths. The global total is at nearly 2.2 million cases and nearly 150,000 dead. Yet President Donald Trump has just put forward new guidelines for how US states can begin to ease some of the lockdown restrictions that have…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…