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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 25: ‘I Had to Fulfill My Responsibility’ Says Fauci, China’s Cities Report Hundreds of Thousands of New Cases
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 990th day of the pandemic.
“I had to fulfil my responsibility,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, said shortly before attending a party in honor of his retirement at the end of the year.
Fauci, who has advised seven U.S. presidents on health, was, not surprisingly, attending a party …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 23: Life Expectancy Falls, Why Patients Lose Their Sense of Smell
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 988th day of the pandemic.
If you thought Covid-related cancellations on Broadway were a thing of the past, you’d be wrong.
“The Collaboration,” a new play based on the real-life artistic collaboration of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1984 and 1985, cancelled its opening night performance Wednesday night, as well as …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 22: U.S. Hits 5-Month High in New Cases, New York and Los Angeles Recommend Masking
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 987th day of the pandemic.
The United States just hit a five-month record in SARS-CoV-2 cases and it’s quite clear that the novel coronavirus is back in force. Still, mask mandates aren’t coming back in great numbers.
There were 187,000 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, the highest number since July 27, when …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 21: China Infection Surge Puts End of Global Emergency in Doubt, Says WHO, Mayor Tells New Yorkers to Mask Up
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 986th day of the pandemic.
It was just September when the head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, pronounced that “the end is in sight” for the global pandemic.
Now experts, including several attached to the WHO, believe that it may be premature to make such a declaration given …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 20: Keeping Grandma Out of the ICU This Holiday Season and Today’s Statistics
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 985th day of the pandemic.
For the first two holiday seasons of the pandemic, the world was social distancing, masking, and limiting the number of people at holiday celebrations.
In great part thanks to mask fatigue and improved vaccines, those measures have gone by the wayside, but the vulnerability of the elderly …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 19: CDC Tells New Yorkers to Don Face Masks, China’s Cities Quiet After Warning of Three Covid Waves Over Winter
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 984th day of the pandemic.
At the risk of repeating what I wrote yesterday, I want to underscore the fact that it is no longer a question of whether there will be a Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s surge in coronavirus cases: The surge is already beginning to build momentum.
The 7-day …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 18: ‘China Is Going to Blow Up,’ Germany’s Hospitals Are Putting Elective Surgery on Pause as Beds Fill Up
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 983rd day of the pandemic.
It’s no longer a question of whether there will be a Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s surge in coronavirus cases: The surge is already beginning to build momentum.
The 7-day incidence level is currently over 68,000, a figure that, just two months ago, was at 36,000, and …
