Trump’s “Stay at Home” guidelines quietly expire today while the U.S. death toll is still rising, often by 1,500 to 2,000 a day
The case count is going up in nearly half the states too, though that’s an imperfect measure because improved testing capacity means more people can get diagnosed.
“It might help on the margins,” said Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. “But we shouldn’t expect big help from temperature. We’ll find out.” Lifting restrictions that were in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that retail stores, including Dallas' Galleria shopping mall, would be allowed to reopen and conduct curbside service. | Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo
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