May 21 Watch 5:14 White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha discusses the growing virus surge By Juliet Fuisz, Ian Couzens, Andrew Corkery A new COVID wave is accelerating across the U.S. with cases rising in almost every state. New daily cases are up by more than 50 percent from just two weeks ago, while COVID-related hospitalizations rose by 12 percent over the… Continue watching
May 21 As COVID funding runs out, U.S. could see rationing of supplies By Zeke Miller, Associated Press Biden administration officials have been warning for weeks that the country has spent nearly all the money in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that was dedicated directly to COVID-19 response. Continue reading
May 17 Watch 5:24 News Wrap: FDA approves Pfizer's COVID-19 booster for children age 5 to 11 In our news wrap Tuesday, the FDA authorized Pfizer's low-dose COVID booster for kids 5 to 11 years old, China restricted more Beijing residents to their homes to help control a small outbreak, U.S highway deaths shot up last year… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 7:13 Grappling with grief as U.S. COVID deaths surpass 1 million By PBS NewsHour It's impossible to fully convey the staggering toll of COVID-19, with the number of deaths in the U.S. from the virus equal to losing the entire populations of Boston and Pittsburgh. But numbers describe just one part of this and… Continue watching
May 16 Watch 6:51 Why the fight against COVID appears to have stalled in the U.S. The CDC on Monday formally confirmed that COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have surpassed 1 million. That's roughly the American death toll in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s the highest reported death toll of any country,… Continue watching
May 13 Watch 7:57 Remembering some of the 1 million Americans lost to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic By Maea Lenei Buhre, Layla Quran, Tess Conciatori, Sam Lane, Frank Carlson, Alex D'Elia With the U.S. marking the tragic milestone of 1 million lives lost from COVID-19, we wanted to pause to acknowledge this immense, collective loss and remember just some of the Americans who have perished from the virus since the pandemic… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 8:17 Dr. Fauci on the state of the pandemic as the U.S. marks 1 million COVID-19 deaths President Biden on Thursday marked the U.S. nearing one million lives lost due to the pandemic and called on Congress to pass funding for more COVID relief. The pandemic has claimed more than 6 million lives worldwide, though WHO estimates… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 6:02 Americans reflect on hardship and loss from the pandemic By Sam Lane, Sam Weber, Maea Lenei Buhre As we approach the tragic milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. we wanted to bring you reflections from some of the people we’ve met over the past two years of this pandemic. A paramedic, a nurse,… Continue watching
May 12 Why 1 million dead from COVID is so hard for our brains to understand By Laura Santhanam Humans are so ill-equipped to process large numbers – nevermind large-scale suffering – that it’s nearly impossible to grasp the toll of 1 million dead. Continue reading
May 05 Watch 6:21 WHO report finds nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID-19 worldwide Nearly 15 million people around the world have died from COVID's impact, directly or indirectly, during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new World Health Organization report. It’s also about three times higher than governments have… Continue watching