https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid ... r-BB19G0sithe pace has been ticking upward slowly since the middle of September as the virus reached parts of the country that hadn’t been hit hard before. By this weekend, 7.3 million people in the United States — some of them at the highest reaches of the federal government — were known to have been infected. More than 208,000 people have died.
Some of the country’s least populous states are now seeing its highest infection rates.
since late summer, North Dakota and South Dakota have added more cases per capita than any other state. Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have set troubling new records as well.
Northeastern Wisconsin, a politically mixed region that also happens to be crucial to both parties’ hopes of winning the presidency, is facing one of the country’s most widespread, uncontrolled outbreaks right now.
Across Wisconsin, warning signs mounted with few glimmers of progress. More than 3,000 new cases were announced in the state in a single day for the first time. The state set single-day records for deaths and hospitalizations. Its test positivity rate reached 20 percent, a loud signal that the outbreak in the state has spun of control.
Bumbling POTUS still has no coherent pandemic plan
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https://www.businessinsider.com/public- ... mp-2020-10The US Department of Transportation on Friday turned down a petition by a group of labor unions who sought a federal mask requirement for passengers riding on major modes of transit, including airplanes, buses, trains.
In a letter to the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO labor federation, Stephen G. Bradbury, the general counsel and acting deputy secretary, explained that the department was not keen on issuing new rules that didn't seem warranted.
"It is unfathomable that in the midst of a global pandemic which has killed more than 209,000 Americans, and left millions more sick and potentially facing lifelong side effects — including the president of the United States — that the US Department of Transportation would outright reject such a simple, science-backed, lifesaving measure," Transportation Trades Department President Larry Willis said in a statement on Saturday.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/in ... -BB19LxxU?More than a dozen White House officials have recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including some who are among the at least nine guests and two journalists who tested positive after they attended Amy Coney Barrett’s Sept. 26 Supreme Court nomination event in the Rose Garden.
Meanwhile, Taiwan — the self-ruled island home to 23 million people — reported just eight new cases in the past week. The island has confirmed just 521 coronavirus cases and seven deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
More than a dozen countries have reported fewer than 10 new coronavirus cases in the past seven days, including several that have not reported any cases at all.