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By Susan Heavey and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden attempted to jump-start the U.S. government s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, signing a string of executive orders intended to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in more than a century. Biden takes office a day after the United States marked a total of 400,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began spreading widely last March. Vaccination programs have lagged far behind the target of 20 million Americans inoculated by the end of 2020. We re entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus and must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, Biden, a 78-year-old Democrat, said in his inauguration speech. The United States has reported nearly 200,000 new COVID-19 infections and 3,000 deaths per day on a seven-day rolling average, according to Reuters data. More than 123,000 Americans were hospitalized with COVID-19 as o
President Joe Biden attempted to jump-start the U.S. government's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, signing a string of executive orders intended to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in more than a century.
Fill me in: This week’s Path Forward featured U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Clark in conversation with General Paul Ostrowski, director of supply, production and distribution for Operation Warp Speed.
Operation Warp Speed was created in May with the goal of working across the federal government and with the private sector to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.
The Path Forward is a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation event series designed to help business and community leaders find the answers they need to execute a responsible reopening strategy and plan for a post-pandemic world.
A K-shaped recovery is an unusual scenario where certain industries and individuals pull out of a recession, while others stagnate.
A K-shaped recovery essentially splits an economy in two, with the divisions occurring along class, racial, geographic, or industry lines.
A K-shaped recovery exposes pre-existing divisions and disparities in wealth, and can exacerbate them.
During a recession, the talk of economic recovery in shapes named after letters is one way for economists to forecast the financial future.
When you hear these shapes U, V, and W, for example analysts are talking about how the recovery period may look if plotted onto a graph that tracks the overall state of the economy. For decades, these letter-shape descriptors have been used to explain different kinds of recoveries, but recently, a new symbol has entered the lexicon: the K-shaped recovery.