Coronavirus: After a lull of new cases during the Thanksgiving weekend — probably because of less testing — confirmed infections have begun rising again. Here’s a map of the outbreak in the U.S.
Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., said the next few months might be “the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation.” He predicted that U.S. virus deaths, which are now around 273,000, could approach 450,000 by February.
The C.D.C. reduced the recommended minimum quarantine time for people exposed to the virus. The old standard was 14 days; now, those without symptoms may end quarantine after seven days with a negative test, or after 10 days without a negative test.
Why did Britain approve Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine before the U.S. did? Britain has a less rigorous process for approval.
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who was the president of France in the 1970s, died from Covid-19. He was 94.
The police broke up a 400-person party at a luxury home on Long Island. Among the calls to the cops? The mansion’s owner, who had rented his property on Airbnb and discovered the gathering while watching his security cameras from afar.
The New York Times