{"id":11051,"date":"2020-11-04T23:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2020-11-05T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:20:49","slug":"post4-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11051","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Coronavirus updates: United States tops 100,000 new virus cases in a day for first time,&#8221; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Antonia Noori Farzan<\/span><span class=\"gray-dark\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Rick Noack<\/span><span class=\"gray-dark\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Paulina Villegas<\/span><span class=\"gray-dark\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Karla Adam<\/span><span class=\"gray-dark\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Chico Harlan<\/span><span class=\"gray-dark\"> and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Darren Sands,\u00a0<\/span>November 4, 2020<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">The United States recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/covid-19-cases-record-100000\/2020\/11\/04\/9733adcc-1ec8-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100,000 new coronavirus infections<\/a> in a single day for the first time on Wednesday as the nation waited to learn the results of a presidential election carried out in the shadow of a pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"w-100 mw-100 h-auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 mw-100 h-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6AILRYQ6GUI6XLKTJQP5USMQPU.jpg&amp;w=32\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6AILRYQ6GUI6XLKTJQP5USMQPU.jpg&amp;w=440 440w, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6AILRYQ6GUI6XLKTJQP5USMQPU.jpg&amp;w=530 530w, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6AILRYQ6GUI6XLKTJQP5USMQPU.jpg&amp;w=691 691w, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6AILRYQ6GUI6XLKTJQP5USMQPU.jpg&amp;w=767 767w, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6AILRYQ6GUI6XLKTJQP5USMQPU.jpg&amp;w=916 916w\" alt=\"A poll worker in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Tuesday. (Caitlin O\u2019Hara for The Washington Post)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A poll worker in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Tuesday. (Caitlin O\u2019Hara for The Washington Post)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"link-box b pa-0 ma-0 font--subhead mb-lg brad-4 inline-story\" data-qa=\"key-updates\">\n<div class=\"font--headline font-md bold ma-md pb-sm b bb bc-gray-light\" data-qa=\"key-updates-header\">Here are some significant developments:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest mt-0 mb-md list mr-md ml-md ml-lg-ns mr-lg-ns\">\n<li class=\"pb-sm lh-lg \" data-qa=\"key-updates-item\"><span class=\"font--meta-text font-light font-xs\">The United States reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/covid-19-cases-record-100000\/2020\/11\/04\/9733adcc-1ec8-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_6\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases<\/a> on Wednesday, according to data tracked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/national\/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post. <\/a>Seventeen states \u2014 including Kansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Montana, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana and West Virginia \u2014 on Wednesday reported record numbers of patients hospitalized with covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. In many of these states, hospital capacity is under serious threat.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"pb-sm lh-lg \" data-qa=\"key-updates-item\"><span class=\"font--meta-text font-light font-xs\">Nationwide, more than 9,445,000<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/national\/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths\/?itid=sf_coronavirus_subnav&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_7\" target=\"_blank\"> coronavirus cases and more than 232,500<\/a>covid-19 fatalities have been logged since February.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"pb-sm lh-lg \" data-qa=\"key-updates-item\"><span class=\"font--meta-text font-light font-xs\">European countries such as England, Italy and Greece have announced new restrictions, including partial or total lockdowns as they face a sweeping second wave of infections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"pb-sm lh-lg \" data-qa=\"key-updates-item\"><span class=\"font--meta-text font-light font-xs\">Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, urged Americans to wear masks in the winter, arguing it could save up to 130,000 lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"pb-sm lh-lg \" data-qa=\"key-updates-item\"><span class=\"font--meta-text font-light font-xs\">Coronavirus cases in American children increased by record numbers in the last week of October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aappublications.org\/news\/2020\/11\/02\/coviddata110220\" target=\"_blank\">according to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children\u2019s Hospital Association.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"pb-sm lh-lg \" data-qa=\"key-updates-item\"><span class=\"font--meta-text font-light font-xs\">A top scientist involved in the development of Oxford University\u2019s vaccine candidate said there is \u201ca small chance\u201d that the vaccine could become available by late December, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-idUSKBN27K1CS\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">The election had a dystopian feel even before infections reached record levels. On Tuesday, voters in goggles and face shields handed ballots to poll workers clad in hazmat suits or sealed behind layers of plexiglass. On Wednesday, President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-supreme-court-election-votes\/2020\/11\/04\/4f528162-1ea1-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_13\" target=\"_blank\">threatened lawsuits<\/a> as election officials in battleground states labored to count an extraordinary number of mail ballots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"remainder-content\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Despite the pandemic\u2019s omnipresent specter, exit polls showed that voters were more concerned about the state of the economy than public health, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/as-the-coronavirus-continues-to-spread-covid-19-trails-the-economy-as-top-issue-for-voters-exit-polling-shows\/2020\/11\/03\/0c8381f0-1e07-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_14\" target=\"_blank\">data collected by Edison Research and reviewed by The Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">About 4 in 10 voters said they would prioritize the economy over efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Around one-third of voters said they were primarily motivated by the economy \u2014 a sentiment that was particularly widespread among Trump supporters, of whom 6 in 10 cited the economy as their top priority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Health officials nationwide attempted to capture the attention of a distracted nation, warning that the steady increase of infections that began in mid-September is not slowing down, amid lingering uncertainty over potential vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, urged Americans \u201cto do the right thing\u201d and wear a mask in public to protect themselves and stop the spread of the virus as the country heads into the winter and flu season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">In a written<a href=\"https:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/2020\/11\/03\/face-coverings-could-save-130000-american-lives-by-march\/\" target=\"_blank\"> statement,<\/a> Collins referred to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-020-1132-9\" target=\"_blank\"><b>a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine<\/b><\/a> that estimated that if most Americans wear masks, up to 130,000 lives could be saved by March. But if mask-wearing continues at its current rate of roughly 50 percent and social distancing measures are not followed, the study found, the total number of covid-19 deaths could reach more than 1 million by the end of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">By early Wednesday evening, the United States had logged more than 104,000 new infections, even as hospitalizations and fatalities rose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">\u201cWe are in the midst of a very serious nationwide resurgence,\u201d Dr. Caitlin Rivers, whose research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore focuses on improve public health response to infectious disease outbreaks, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmyeaton\/status\/1324136358328389634?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">said on Twitter<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-oembed-type=\"twitter\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1323958656765988866&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Fcovid-coronavirus-updates-2%2F&amp;siteScreenName=WashingtonPost&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1323958656765988866\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">At least 17 states \u2014 including Kansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Montana, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana and West Virginia \u2014 reported record-high numbers of current covid-19 inpatients, according to data tracked by The Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">\u201cWe are again in danger of losing control of this pandemic in Iowa,\u201d Suresh Gunasekaran, chief executive of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, <a href=\"https:\/\/uihc.org\/news\/suresh-pandemic-opinion-column\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in an urgent appeal to the state\u2019s residents.<\/a> \u201cOur COVID positivity rates skyrocketed twice before, but this is the first time we have seen rates this high while also dealing with record patient hospitalizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Some hospitals in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/covid-storm-prompts-local-hospitals-to-begin-rescheduling-elective-surgeries\/article_7bc3159e-2784-5a8a-947f-534b02d73dd2.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3newsnow.com\/news\/coronavirus\/live-chief-medical-officers-of-local-health-systems-discuss-plans-as-covid-19-cases-rise-in-ne\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha<\/a> metropolitan areas have started rescheduling elective surgeries to free up beds, while the head of the Arkansas Hospital Association said at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8BUMxEIrz00\" target=\"_blank\">briefing <\/a>Tuesday that the state was facing a critical shortage of health-care workers as states <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hospitals-competing-nurses-virus-surge-0e1d92aa8002c1638d8bc9b692c01919\" target=\"_blank\">furiously compete for nurses.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Facing a sweeping second wave of infections, more European countries have ramped up restrictions as the continent\u2019s tally of infections has surpassed 11 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands\/netherlands-tightens-lockdown-to-slow-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN27J1LB\" target=\"_blank\">The Netherlands<\/a> banned public gatherings with more than two people from different households, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-hungary-orban\/hungary-closes-bars-imposes-night-time-curfew-to-curb-virus-pm-orban-idUSKBN27J2GZ?il=0\" target=\"_blank\">Hungary<\/a> shuttered bars and issued a nightly curfew, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">British lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted for a month-long nationwide lockdown in England, to start Thursday. Unlike the one in the spring, schools and universities will remain open. But pubs, restaurants, gyms and nonessential businesses will close for four weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Until recently, the administration of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was reticent to impose a nationwide lockdown, preferring instead a targeted, regional approach. But Johnson said that, when confronted with fresh data showing cases and hospitalizations climbing rapidly, he had to act. \u201cThe curve is already unmistakable,\u201d he told Parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">The politicians opposed to the new lockdown \u2014 many from Johnson\u2019s own party \u2014 say they are too severe and will hurt the economy and civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Kate Bingham, chair of Britain\u2019s coronavirus vaccine task force, told Parliament on Wednesday that data on the two leading vaccine candidates \u2014 developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and by Pfizer and BioNtech \u2014 should be available by December, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/the-latest-italy-imposing-night-curfew-other-restrictions\/2020\/11\/03\/3684d704-1e36-11eb-ad53-4c1fda49907d_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_38\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that while a coronavirus vaccine is needed, other underlying problems that afflict nations worldwide are just as pressing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">\u201cThe need for a #COVID19 vaccine is very real,\u201d he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1323662200553250817\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter.<\/a> \u201cBut it will not fix the vexing vulnerabilities afflicting us all. There\u2019s no vaccine for poverty, hunger, inequality, climate change or misguided nationalism. Global commitment to end these scourges is urgently needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-italy\/italy-prepares-new-coronavirus-curbs-as-deaths-surge-idUSKBN27J25W\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>, one of Europe\u2019s worst-hit nations, announced new restrictions Wednesday, including a nationwide curfew, and instituted a three-tiered system of regional restrictions that brought several hard-hit parts of the country into de facto lockdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">The latest tightening, which will come into force on Friday, marks the fifth time since the beginning of October that the government has instituted new measures to slow the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Italy has not yet followed several other Western European countries into nationwide lockdown. But the new decree requires bars, restaurants and shops to close in several regions \u2014 Lombardy, Piedmont, Calabria and Aosta \u2014 while stopping most travel between regions deemed highest risk. In areas deemed \u201cred zones,\u201d elementary schools will continue to operate, but older children will be required to take classes remotely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">The measures amount to a painful acknowledgment that previous steps, aimed at salvaging a measure of economic activity, have been insufficient to slow the virus\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">France is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-france\/france-ponders-new-paris-curfew-as-lockdown-rebels-frustrate-government-idUSKBN27J0TX\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> also considering the reimposition of a nightly curfew in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">In famously lockdown-averse Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven warned that the \u201cvery serious situation\u201d would require a tougher approach and recommended that residents avoid public transportation, gyms and shopping malls in most parts of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">\u201cThe brief respite that we got during the summer is over,\u201d Lofven said Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-11-03\/sweden-adds-restrictions-amid-very-serious-covid-resurgence\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg News.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"link-box\" class=\"mb-lg-mod\">\n<div class=\"brad-4 border-box b shadow-light bg-white w-100 h-100\" data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"card\">\n<div class=\"pa-md pa-lg-ns relative\" data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"faqbox\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-column flex-row-reverse-ns justify-between bb-ns bc-gray-lighter pb-md b bb mb-sm\" data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"faqbox\">\n<div class=\"font--meta-text font-xxxxs gray-dark lh-default w-100 w-auto-ns mb-xs mb-0-ns\" data-cy=\"sc-faq-box-updated-date\" data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"updateddate\">Updated November 4, 2020<\/div>\n<div data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"faqbox\">\n<h3 class=\"font--headline font-md gray-darkest lh-md\" data-cy=\"sc-faq-box-heading\" data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"heading\">Coronavirus: What you need to read<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"font--subhead light gray-dark lh-md\" data-cy=\"sc-faq-box-subheading\" data-sc-v=\"3.12.1\" data-sc-c=\"subheading\">The Washington Post is providing some coronavirus coverage free, including:<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt-xs pt-md-ns relative \" data-qa=\"content\" data-amp-bind-class=\"!isExpanded ? 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