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Coronavirus has claimed 900,000 lives worldwide, a fifth of them in the US.
In May, 1,183 of the 42,099 COVID-19 deaths nationwide were in Florida, according the NBC News’ numbers. As of Thursday afternoon, 12,268 coronavirus deaths have been reported in Florida, the majority of them since DeSantis –- a staunch Trump supporter -- signed that executive order.
There were 23,382 deaths in June. And while Trump continued to balk at wearing masks in public, Republican allies alarmed by the skyrocketing infection rates were not just donning them but risking the ire of Trump’s followers by urging them to do the same.Through it all, Trump continued to insist that the U.S. was making progress in the battle against the pandemic. "I think we're going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that's going to sort ofThat month 26,198 COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S., according to NBC’s figures. And in August, another 30,234 people were reported dead as many schools and universities began reopening, creating another potential coronavirus crisis. Responding to the revelations in the soon-to-be-released Woodward book"Rage," the daughter of a Trump supporter who died of COVID-19 doubled-down on her criticism of the president's pandemic performance. “If Donald Trump had told the American people in public what he had told Bob Woodward in private, thousands of lives could have been spared, including my dad,”In other coronavirus news: Weekly jobless claims ticked up slightly to 884,000 last week, which is more than the 850,000 that economists had been forecasting. And for some experts, the new numbers were more evidence that the so-called V-shaped recovery that Trump and his team have been promising the American people was a long way off. “The ‘V-shaped’ recovery is a mirage,” Nick Mazing, director of research at data provider Sentieo,Thousands of bars and restaurants have gone belly-up since the start of the pandemic. And the fates of those that survived are now in the hands of state officials who have to weigh the risks of reopening the businesses most likely to spread the coronavirus against sparking a wave of bar and restaurant bankruptcies."I'd love for everything to be open, but I think we can all agree sending our kids to school is more fundamental to our society functioning than bars," Malia Jones, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin, ."There should be a stimulus package for businesses that are suffering. Some of them are going to be closed for a long time, I think.", you could be slapped with a $50 fine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned. Same goes for commuters who ride city buses buses or the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road commuter trains. “Wearing a mask on public transit is mandatory, the governor’s executive order has the force of state law," Metropolitan Transit Authority president and CEO PatrickFoye said."Achieving universal mask compliance is our goal.” A recent spotcheck of more than a dozen New York City bus routes by , a local news organization, found that on some 90 percent were wearing masks while on one route in the borough of Queens"barely a third of the riders fully covered their noses and mouths."
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