"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates 12/1/20"
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by David Leonhardt
• Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94 percent effective, and the company has asked the F.D.A. to authorize it. If all goes smoothly, the drug could begin reaching Americans by Dec. 21.
• “The long darkness before dawn”: Donald McNeil, a Times reporter who covers infectious diseases, examines the grim months ahead, when virus deaths will almost certainly surge before vaccines are widely available.
• After weeks of lockdown, new cases in England have fallen by 33 percent. The policy is set to end tomorrow, though some regions will keep tight restrictions.
• Dr. Scott Atlas, a White House coronavirus adviser who espoused disputed theories, resigned. His term was about to expire this week.
• “Teachers are not OK right now,” one educator told The Times. The whiplash of closings and reopenings and the stresses of remote learning have driven many in the profession to exhaustion.
Dec. 1, 2020 12:03 AM ET:
The coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 63,269,300
people, according to official counts, including 13,615,100 Americans.
At least 1,467,500 have died.
Dec. 1, 2020 12:03 AM ET:
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count○
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