Joel Achenbach

Setting capacity limits on businesses and other indoor locations can effectively lower the risk of transmission, according to a study of the way people moved.

If finalized, the agreement would funnel money over 18 years to thousands of communities devastated by the epidemic.

More than 110,000 new infections were reported Thursday, dwarfing the previous worst periods of the pandemic. Few areas are being spared.

As with just about everything else about Tuesday’s election, voters broke into even camps over whether to tackle the virus or reopen the economy.

But a slight majority said it is important to curb the pandemic now, even if that hurts the economy.

The coronavirus’s unprecedented carnage has political ramifications that flu, polio and even HIV did not.

On some recent days, the number of deaths nationally has exceeded 1,000.

“We’re in a bad place,” Rhode Island’s governor says. Denver’s mayor is dismayed by the lack of a national strategy.

The resistance has grown larger thanks to presidential candidates with starkly different views about masks, as well as the pandemic.