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November 12, 2020

U.S. Records Over 140,000 Coronavirus Cases on Wednesday, Another World Record
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The United States has set another world record for coronavirus cases,
confirming more than 140,000 infections on Wednesday and over 1,400
deaths. More than 65,000 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 around
the U.S. - also a record - and doctors are warning they may have to
begin rationing care as intensive care units fill to capacity. Every
state in the union is seeing COVID cases rise.

Here in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered new limits on social
gatherings in private homes and is ordering bars, restaurants and gyms
to close by 10 p.m. In Ohio, Republican Governor Mike De Wine told
residents they can no longer congregate at weddings, funerals and
banquets, and ordered tougher enforcement measures for his statewide
mask mandate.

Gov. Mike De Wine: "When you're going through hell, keep going. And so,
tonight, I ask you: Keep going. Recommit to your individual efforts to
stay safe, because what you do in your private lives affects everyone."

Across the U.S., hospitals and nursing homes are warning of an alarming
shortage of masks, surgical gowns and other personal protective
equipment. The Strategic National Stockpile reportedly has less than
half of the 300 million N95 masks the Trump administration had said it
would procure by winter.

Meanwhile, President Trump's last public comments on the coronavirus
came in a handful of tweets on Tuesday, when he proposed a conspiracy
theory that drugmaker Pfizer waited to report positive news about its
vaccine trial until after Election Day. 


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