Nearly 300,000 Americans have now died of covid-19 — 50,000 of them in the past four weeks. Now it has nearly reached the 300,000 marker in less than half that time — even though treatment of the most severe cases has improved. All residents at Sunrise of Edgewater were confined to their rooms to distance them from the reach of the virus. “Why haven’t you taken her to the hospital?” Bond asked. “I think I might have covid.”By the time Woodbury, a 23-year-old prison guard, came down with the disease, nearly 200,000 Americans had died of covid.

Source: Washington Post December 12, 2020 11:07 UTC