by Jakub Hlávka and Adam Rose The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will reach $14 trillion by the end of this year, […]
Tag: COVID deaths
COVID on the rise, but by how much?
Regular readers may have noticed we no longer display COVID-19 case numbers on the front page, nor do we include vaccine/testing information on A-2. The explanation for […]
Day of remembrance for COVID victims
by Sarah E. Wagner, Roy R. Grinker and Joel C. Kuipers In New York City, a woman opens her laptop to a bar graph showing the number […]
1 million American COVID deaths still understates enormity of the loss
by Josh Gohlke A million Americans have been lost to the pandemic, according to the federal government’s official count, making this a disaster that defies most comparisons. […]
Lives lost to the pandemic deserve to be remembered
by Lynn Schmidt In just a few short weeks, the United States is likely to reach an unfathomable milestone in terms of numbers: 1 million lives lost […]
Not supposed to get near 1M COVID deaths
by Nicholas Goldberg At the start of the pandemic, in late March 2020, President Donald Trump held a White House briefing at which his top advisers presented […]
The death toll from conservative politicization of the pandemic
With light apparently at the end of the coronavirus tunnel, this is a good time to soberly assess how America handled the pandemic and can better handle […]
Going to be hard for Justice to sue Kabler when Kabler is right
Of the 24 minutes Gov. Jim Justice spoke during his COVID briefing Monday, before taking questions from the press, he dedicated at least 10 minutes to complaining […]
State passes 6,000 deaths
West Virginia passed another bleak milestone Monday, surpassing 6,000 COVID-19 deaths in the state. Justice read an additional 31 victims at the start of Monday’s briefing, bringing […]
When an anti-vaxxer dies of COVID, is that cause for glib, ironic satisfaction?
by Nicholas Goldberg Kelly Ernby was no doubt a good person, a friend to her friends, a companion to her husband, a crime-fighting prosecutor. She presumably had […]
