Coronavirus: How Is the U.S. Being Affected?

20 Ways Coronavirus Have Affected The U.S. 

1. The coronavirus has now been identified in all 50 U.S. states, and more than 140 deaths in the country have been linked to the illness. We are tracking every case.

2. Janitors are going into offices to battle the invisible germs that threaten public health, sometimes without adequate protection or information about what they are facing.

3. The census has announced a two-week suspension of training and outreach. The stop imperils the success of a national head count whose meticulous plans took years to prepare.

 4. For small-business owners across the country, the past week has brought a sinking feeling of catastrophe.

5. Immigrants are afraid to seek medical care for the coronavirus. That could hamper efforts to contain the epidemic.

6. Florida has an aging population, and lots of young visitors. And testing for the coronavirus has been slow.

7. College students are being sent home. Graduation is cancelled. Some students are taking it into their own hands.

8. The coronavirus has descended on a rural town in Kentucky. Six residents are sick. bullet: In jails and prisons across the country, concerns are rising of a coronavirus outbreak behind bars.

9. As coronavirus anxiety spreads, gun shops and ammunition dealers have seen a surge in sales.

10. Doctors are worried about bringing the coronavirus home with them.

11. In the face of sweeping restrictions being imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus, some are asking what may feel like a taboo question: "Are we overreacting?"

12. Airports have been reeling as new coronavirus screenings have gone into effect.

13. For centuries, the United States has resisted a centralized public health policy. This week, as protective measures against the coronavirus varied county to county, Americans saw the cost.

14. Puerto Rico has ordered one of the most serious U.S. crackdowns yet over Covid-19, with the governor ordering most businesses on the island to shut down.

15. Across the country, churches have been working around the coronavirus.

16.  Sick people across the country say they are still being denied the coronavirus test.

Medical researchers say the half-million homeless people across the United States have a heightened vulnerability to the coronavirus.

17. If police officers get the coronavirus, who will patrol the streets? Some are concerned the criminal justice system may not be ready for a major outbreak.

18.,Early in the outbreak of the coronavirus, the U.S. missed key opportunities to test for the disease widely. Now, "it's just everywhere already.

19. Facing the threat of the coronavirus, schools are trying distance learning on a massive scale. We followed a town in the Seattle area that was the first to move all of its classes online.

20. The government are ready to spend huge amount of money on getting cure to the disease.

Culled from New York Times.