WTF Just Happened Today?

Day 1217: "We still have a long way to go."


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  • 🔥 Daily Damage Report.
  • ğŸŒ� Global: Total confirmed cases ~4,966,000; Total deaths: ~326,000; Total recoveries: ~1,875,000. (Johns Hopkins University)

  • 🇺🇸 U.S.: Total confirmed cases ~1,541,000; Total deaths: ~93,100; Total recoveries: ~289,000

  • 💰 Markets: Dow 📈; S&P 500 📈; Nasdaq 📈

  • More than 100,000 coronavirus cases were reported to the World Health Organization in the last 24 hours – “the most in a single day since the outbreak began.â€� WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added: “We still have a long way to go in this pandemic.â€� (NBC News / CNBC)

  • All 50 states have now taken steps to reopen. Many began to reopen despite not meeting White House guidelines for progress against the virus, and newly reported cases have been increasing in some states, including Texas and Minnesota, that are moving to ease restrictions. Public health officials, meanwhile, warn that moving too fast could risk more outbreaks. (Wall Street Journal / New York Times)

  • Black Americans are dying of coronavirus at a rate three times higher than that of white Americans, according to a new report. More than 20,000 African Americans have already died from the virus. (The Guardian)

  • 💻 Live blogs: New York Times / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / The Guardian / CNBC / NBC News / CNN

    1/ Trump threatened to “hold up� federal funds for Michigan and Nevada because they are expanding mail-in voting to make it easier to vote during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump, set off by an announcement by Michigan’s secretary of state to send absentee ballot applications to every voter in the state, tweeted that Jocelyn Benson had gone “rogue� and sent absentee ballots “illegally and without authorization […] I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!� Trump later deleted the tweet but sent a similar one that said “absentee ballot applications� without noting mistake. Trump made a similar threat to Nevada, claiming the state had created “a great Voter Fraud scenario� and adding “If they do, ‘I think’ I can hold up funds to the State.� Nevada is mailing absentee ballots to all registe...

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