Covid-19 Pandemic
 Here’s the latest news from the global pandemic. Vaccine front-runner held back by China’s spat with CanadaWhite House says CDC will halt evictions with quarantine rules U.K. Treasury told to avoid tax increases as budget deficit grows The making of a Coronavoter As the U.S. presidential election looms, a new cohort of voters has the potential to tip the scale against Donald Trump: Republicans for whom the coronavirus was the last straw, and Democrats and independents who don’t always vote but tell pollsters the pandemic will summon them to the booth come November. Grant Hall of Georgia is one of those Coronavoters. In 2016, he was uninspired by the candidates from both parties, and like many of his college-aged peers, chose not to vote in his first presidential election.  Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg Fast-forward to 2020: After 2 1/2 years abroad with the Peace Corps, Grant returned to the U.S. in December and moved in with his family. Hell soon broke loose. Grant, his sisters and his parents started showing symptoms of Covid-19 in late March. His father didn’t get better. Doctors put Grant’s dad, Stuart, on hydroxychloroquine, but the drug made his heart race. “It was 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning,” Grant recalls, “and he was visibly not OK. Me and my mom rushed him to the hospital. It turned out once we got there that at some point that night he had been having a heart attack.” While large-scale studies have failed to find a benefit from the drug in treating the coronavirus, it has been associated with elevated heart risks. As night turned to day, Grant sat in the parking lot, Googling the survival odds for his father, who was in surgery. The Hall family lived from phone call to phone call over the next few weeks as Stuart remained on a ventilator. “That was the same period in which Trump said he’d been taking hydroxychloroquine for weeks, that it was a wonder drug,” Grant says. “We knew how many other people could potentially be in our shoes, and to have our leader promoting bad science was really maddening.” Stuart has since returned home to his loved ones, and his health is improving each day with physical therapy. But Grant remains frustrated that science has been overpowered by politics. Come November, the 25-year-old is going to make his vote count. “It’s easy not to care until it personally affects you,” Grant says. “If it hasn’t hit close enough to home yet, look no further than my own.”—Riley Griffin Track the virus Global Confirmed Cases Near 26 Million India is on course to surpass Brazil in infections and is fast becoming the new virus epicenter. Get the latest data here.  Sponsored Content by Siemens America’s factories, power plants, transportation and hospitals all need technology and our technology is only as powerful as the people deploying and maintaining it. Keeping America moving takes more than technology alone. It takes a human touch. Siemens Ingenuity for life. What you should read Euro Surge Is ECB’s Newest Covid Complication Christine Lagarde has more to worry about than a fading recovery. How to Make Your Post-Covid Office ‘Immune’ Features include quarantine rooms, entrances that take your temperature. One-Third of H.K. Tycoon’s Wealth Is Zoom Stake An early bet on the video-conferencing app has paid off for Li Ka-shing. Bling Is Back in China, But They’re Not Dining Out Consumers binge again on handbags, while still shunning restaurants. N.Y. Homebuyers Aren’t Searching in Manhattan Shoppers looking for space push up demand pretty much everywhere else. Know someone else who would like this newsletter? Have them sign up here. Have any questions, concerns, or news tips on Covid-19 news? Get in touch or help us cover the story. Like this newsletter? Subscribe for unlimited access to trusted, data-based journalism in 120 countries around the world and gain expert analysis from exclusive daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Follow Us Get the newsletter You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Daily newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022 |
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