20 US states plan to raise their minimum wage starting on January 1st, 2021. Some states like Minnesota and Florida will increase the minimum wage by just a few pennies, while others — including Arkansas and New Mexico — will raise it by a dollar or more. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at …
Despite concerns from some Americans, the incoming Biden administration has repeatedly stated that it has no plans to call for or implement a national lockdown. Coronavirus infections are out of control in the US, but President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 task force doesn’t think that we will need a lockdown to slow the spread. “We do not …
The US hit a new daily record for confirmed coronavirus cases at 77,640 on Thursday. The previous record for one day of cases was 75,723, which was set at the end of July. To date, more than 8.4 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19, while over 223,000 have died. Both numbers are expected to …
The death toll from lightning strikes in the United States is at a record low. Fewer people are dying from being struck by lightning than in years past, due to a variety of factors. Less intense thunderstorms may be temporarily skewing the numbers down. The coronavirus pandemic has cost well over 200,000 lives in the …
Coronavirus cases have hit a record low in the US as a whole, which is welcome news after the country endured months of the pandemic — though a new analysis has found that a handful of states are nevertheless experiencing record coronavirus deaths. The analysis comes from USA Today, which found that three states in …
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that ‘the worst thing you can do’ is send students who test positive for COVID-19 home where they can infect their friends and family. Some schools have dorms set up to quarantine sick students, but others are sending students home, and this could cause outbreaks in their hometowns. Labor Day weekend …
The US coronavirus death toll could reach 410,000 by January 1st, according to the latest projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Over 186,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19, but that number could more than double if the country doesn’t change its approach to the coronavirus pandemic. A universal …
The coronavirus infection rate is on the rise in 26 US states, even as hotspots like Florida, California, Texas, and Arizona have begun to see their daily case counts decline. The infection rate was dropping across the US for most of August, but plateaued near the end of the month, which just so happens to …
A new poll from research company SRSS shows that 68% of Americans are embarrassed by the way Donald Trump’s administration has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Trump’s approval rating for the pandemic has dropped to 38%, while 79% of Americans say that they are somewhat or very angry about the state of the country. Trump’s approval …
According to Reuters, US scientists are attempting to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that they could use to intentionally infect participants in human challenge trials. Human challenge trials “are trials in which participants are intentionally challenged with an infectious disease organism,” according to the World Health Organization. Even if challenge trials for vaccines …
