Coronavirus: California announced new restrictions for areas where hospitals are nearing capacity, including shuttering outdoor dining, closing playgrounds and limiting store capacity.
Communities around the U.S. have begun distributing at-home virus tests. The kits, which require only saliva instead of a nasal swab, are a “major step toward making testing more accessible and widespread,” one health expert said.
The U.S. recorded 2,857 deaths yesterday, the second-highest daily tally since the start of the pandemic.
President-elect Joe Biden said he would ask Americans to wear masks during his first 100 days in office. “Not forever. 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction,” he said.
The New York Young Republican Club held its annual gala. Images posted on Twitter showed attendees gathered inside, close together and wearing no masks.
Facebook says it will remove posts that contain debunked claims about coronavirus vaccines, a more aggressive stance than it has taken against other vaccine misinformation.
Nine months ago, the virus hit a part of Queens harder than almost anywhere else in the U.S. The Times tells the story through the lives of six residents.
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