The Latest News

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readMar 19, 2020

--

Some developing stories…

  • Case count: There are over 3.3 million confirmed cases in the U.S. and over 12.9 million confirmed cases worldwide. So far over 135,200 Americans have died from Covid-19. There are surely more.
  • Trump administration criticizes Dr. Anthony Fauci: Aids sent journalists a list of things they felt the physician got wrong about the virus early on. Many have come to the physician’s defense. Read more.
  • New York reports milestone of no Covid-19 deaths: On Sunday the state reported its first day of no confirmed or probable virus deaths since the pandemic began. Read more.
  • States continue to experience surges: Multiple states are dealing with spikes in Covid-19 cases. Florida reported 15,000 in a day, a record for the country. South Carolina reported its highest single-day total of Covid-19 cases on Saturday with more than 2,200 infections. Louisiana has now closed bars due to surging cases and hospitalizations.

Sign up for the newsletter to get the key coronavirus stories of the day delivered straight to you

Have a Covid-19 question? Check out our Q&A page.

--

--

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that