Spoiler Alert: It didn’t all just magically disappear.
In fact, the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 have skyrocketed with more than 18,400 people dying from COVID-19 in the week ending January 3rd, 2021. December appears to have been the deadliest month resulting in “nearly 78,000 deaths, and health officials warned that even more people will likely die in January despite the rollout of vaccines.”
Gross domestic product from April to June plunged 32.9%, according to the Commerce Department’s first reading on the data released Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a drop of 34.7%. Still, MORE
April 28 (Reuters) – U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus topped 1 million on Tuesday, having doubled in 18 days, and making up one-third of all infections in the world, according to a Reuters tally. MORE
LONDON — The end of the pandemic is finally in view. So is rescue from the most traumatic global economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. As Covid vaccines enter the bloodstream, recovery has become reality. MORE