We are a little more than a week away from the projected coronavirus surge in Alabama. Projections from the University of Washington is updated constantly. It predicted at least 93 deaths by Saturday. The Alabama Department of Public Health reported exactly 93 deaths on Saturday. The model predicts that number will double by next week. By the end of May, Alabama could see more than 400 deaths if the model holds true.
Americans spent Sunday on lockdown as the U.S. toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed 21,300 deaths and more than half a million confirmed cases over the Easter weekend.
The Trump administration still has no clear plan for ending the coronavirus crisis, but it does have many task forces. There is the official task force led by Vice President Pence that meets daily and is supposed to oversee the government’s sprawling response to the pandemic that has cratered the economy and, as of Saturday, killed more than 20,000 in the United States alone.
The coronavirus can travel through the air at least 13 feet — more than twice as far as social distancing guidelines, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Research published in the federal agency’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal shows the contagion spreading far further than previous official suggestions — and also getting spread on people’s shoes.
Certified registered nurse anesthetist Derrick Smith is no stranger to the horrors of losing patients. But now, the coronavirus pandemic has pushed him into a completely different, "much more terrifying" reality. Smith, who is predominantly treating Covid-19 patients at a hospital in New York City, revealed the tragic last words of a dying man he was about to place on a ventilator: "Who's going to pay for it?" the coronavirus patient asked Smith in between labored breaths.
A shortage of face masks and N95 respirators amid the coronavirus pandemic has led the Department of Veterans Affairs to tell hospitals to decide which employees get masks and which don’t, according to internal memos reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.