With the New York area still deep in crisis, fear mounted over the spread of the scourge into the nation’s heartland. Twenty-four residents of an Indiana nursing home hit by COVID-19 have died, while a nursing home in Iowa saw 14 deaths. With infections and deaths slowing in Italy, Spain and other places on the Continent, governments took tentative steps toward loosening the weeks-long shutdowns. The death rate — the number of dead relative to the population — is still far higher in Italy than in the United States, which has more than five times as many people. Governor Andrew Cuomo said the daily number of deaths is stabilizing, “but stabilizing at a horrific rate.”“What do we do now?

Source: The Standard April 12, 2020 03:45 UTC