At some point, the resurgence of the coronavirus will set the American and global economies back. In the United States, infections have increased to a rate of 157,000 per day, with each loss of life and the use of medical resources and foregone activity taking their toll on economic progress. The ... READ MORE >
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Coronavirus update: The rise of the delta variant
The coronavirus is spreading once more, with daily reported cases in the United States nearly four times higher than only four weeks ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that because of its transmissibility, the delta variant of the virus is now responsible for more than 83% of ... READ MORE >
Coronavirus update: Vaccines and the pandemic in 6 charts
The emergence of the delta variant around the world and among the non-vaccinated population in the United States presents another round of economic risks that are part of the reason why we recently lowered our growth forecast for the year from 7.5% to 7%. It appears that an arc of instability from ... READ MORE >
Coronavirus update: Vaccines and the pandemic in six charts
After a year of a mounting human and economic toll brought on by the pandemic, help is on its way. Americans are being vaccinated at an average rate of 2.3 million per day and supplies are sufficient enough that states have begun to lower age requirements. So encouraging are these numbers that the ... READ MORE >
Coronavirus update: The post-holiday surge eases
January was the worst month of the pandemic, with nearly 98,000 U.S. deaths attributed to COVID-19. That surge came as no surprise to many in the public health community who predicted such an increase after family and friends gathered during the holidays. At the peak of the recent surge, more than a ... READ MORE >
The $900 billion coronavirus relief package is a necessary start. But first it needs to be enacted.
Not long after Congress passed a $900 billion coronavirus relief package late Monday, along with $1.4 trillion to keep the government funded, President Donald Trump criticized the legislation as "a disgrace," throwing it into doubt. RSM chief economist Joseph Brusuelas analyzed what these developments ... READ MORE >
CHART OF THE DAY: Coronavirus patients overwhelm hospitals and their workers
The resurgence of the coronavirus not only threatens to overwhelm hospitals and the number of beds they have to treat patients, but it also puts enormous strain on the workers themselves and their ability to manage cases. “The death rates really accelerate as ICU staff starts to get overwhelmed,” Dr. ... READ MORE >
Coronavirus update: Vaccination begins
Pfizer’s modified-RNA vaccine has received emergency-use authorization for people 18 and older, and shipments of the vaccine have begun. The first round of vaccinations will likely be distributed to health care workers and nursing home residents and their caregivers, according to state guidelines. This ... READ MORE >
Coronavirus update: More records to be broken as human toll mounts
The human toll of the novel coronavirus continued to mount in the week after Thanksgiving, with no signs of slowing down. A record 237,000 new U.S. cases were reported on Dec. 4 and a record 2,921 people died from the COVID-19 disease on Dec. 3, according to the Worldometers database. New ... READ MORE >
Coronavirus update: Ethical aspects of vaccinations
The successful release of one or more vaccines presents society with the issue of who gets vaccinated first and then the succeeding phases of distribution. This will challenge our society to the core. Recent difficult conversations around race and economic inequality boil just beneath the surface ... READ MORE >