The U.S. has surpassed 1 million new confirmed coronavirus cases in just the first 10 days of November, with more than 100,000 infections each day becoming the norm in a surge that shows no signs of slowing.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced publication of its Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response Report detailing its efforts to address the pandemic from early January through June 30.
For months the city of Los Angeles has been offering a do-it-yourself option to COVID-19 testing. It has been such a big success that the city of Riverside is now launching its own self testing sites.
Before COVID-19, many people seemed to have believed that every death in the United States — indeed in the world — was accurately registered in some universally accessible system that would serve as an eternal record of who died from what and when.