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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
During the lockdown, all gatherings except for funerals were prohibited. [308] Restaurants, taverns, bottle stores and all other stores not selling essential goods were to close during the lockdown period. [307] Schools, already closed a week before the lockdown period, will not reopen until after the lockdown.
[66] [67] [68] Coronavirus Response Coordinator Deborah Birx cited an analysis by Imperial College London that if nothing was done by government officials, 2.2 million would die in the United States. [69] The researchers recommended enforced social distancing for the entire population and closing all schools and universities. [70]
The two current officials confirmed there is some concern about the proposal and pointed to the fact that similar measures used during Title 42, the Covid policy that was meant to keep asylum ...
Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that U.S. has seen a 50% drop in encounters along the border since Covid restrictions were lifted.
The substantial increase of plastic waste during the COVID-19 pandemic became a major environmental concern. The increased demand for single-use plastics exacerbated an already significant plastic pollution problem. Most of the new plastic found in oceans was generated from hospitals, shipping packages, and from personal protection equipment (PPE).
The border towns of El Paso and Juarez are bracing for a migrant surge when the Title 42 Covid ban ends next week. But numbers are already rising. As the Title 42 Covid ban nears its end, a ...
By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...