Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is considering imposing new stay-at-home orders in California. About 75% of California’s 7,733 intensive-care-unit beds are occupied, and projections shared by Newsom indicate that hospitals could reach 112% of capacity by December 24. “If these trends continue, we’re going to have to take much more […]

US islands that emerged from the early months of the coronavirus pandemic relatively unscathed are now facing outbreaks. In Puerto Rico, Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced imposed travel restrictions after several officials contracted the virus. In Hawaii, Gov. David Ige signed a strict stay-at-home order for the island of Oahu after […]

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said that the city is “on the brink” of another stay-at-home order on Sunday. During an appearance on CNN, Garcetti criticised a lack of national leadership on stopping COVID-19. Last week, Los Angeles County broke its record for a single day, with more than 4,500 new […]

Fastly’s stock has surged an epic 307% this year through Thursday’s close. This week, Fastly also overtook Zoom as the best-performing work-from-home stock of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the seven board members that stand to gain from the cloud-computing company’s rally. Watch Fastly trade live on Markets Insider. Read […]

As the coronavirus pandemic wears on, “staycations” should support stocks tied to solitary leisure, Bank of America analysts led by Robert Ohmes wrote Monday. Credit card data suggests that spending solitary activities such as golf accelerated in June. In addition, travel and Google Mobility data show that consumers are staying […]

To prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and flatten the curve, many countries are practicing social distancing, or what the WHO is now calling physical distancing. But how long will this period of social distancing last? Unfortunately, no one knows for sure. The answer is complicated, and it partly […]

States may be forced to reimpose strict coronavirus abatement measures like social distancing and store closures if cases increase “dramatically,” the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday. Many states have loosened restrictions that were imposed in March over the last few weeks. The warning comes as some states, […]

As of Wednesday, all 50 states have started to ease their lockdown measures. Connecticut became the last state to enter the first phase of reopening its economy. With more people out and about, the risk for a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases is significant. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more […]

A Kingston, New York barber has tested positive for the coronavirus after giving haircuts while in defiance of the state’s PAUSE order over the past few weeks, CNN reported. The Kingston barbershop had defied New York’s statewide closure of nonessential businesses to continue operating, a move Ulster County health commissioner […]

Umberto Menasci designed a concept for plexiglass boxes that enable social distancing at beaches. Some states have reopened public beaches as they ease coronavirus lockdowns, while others are under stricter stay-at-home orders. Resort towns in particular have been eager to reopen, and some viral photos appear to show large crowds […]

Photos of armed protesters ordering sandwiches at a Subway restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday quickly started to trend over the weekend. The protesters marched through Raleigh’s downtown streets to oppose the state’s stay-at-home orders, which it started easing Saturday. The armed protest came after others around the country, […]

The US Department of Justice sided with a Virginia church in a legal dispute over whether stay-at-home orders unfairly discriminated against the church. The DOJ wrote in a statement of interest that Virginia’s stay-at-home orders had “impermissibly interfered with the church’s free exercise of religion.” The case is one of […]

Experts warn that lifting lockdowns too early will lead to more waves of coronavirus transmission. Here’s what the future of the coronavirus outbreak in the US could look like, based on different mitigation approaches. States might have to issue lockdowns to curb the virus’ spread during each wave. Visit Business […]

The state web page describing California’s stay-at-home order gives a “nonexhaustive” list of outdoor recreational activities that Californians are allowed to do. Among them are: exploring rock pools, kite boarding, skateboarding (not in groups), and rock climbing. Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Friday that California is “many days, not weeks” […]

Nearly seven weeks after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, 54% of Americans believe the government is still not sufficiently prepared to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, according to new Insider polling. Despite the government’s response efforts, the percentage of Americans who don’t believe the country is prepared to […]

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. On the latest episode of “Pitchfork Economics,” Hanauer and Goldstein interview Sports Illustrated columnist Andrew Brandt about the coronavirus’ […]

States including Oklahoma, Alaska, Georgia, and South Carolina began reopening their economies this week, and others are following suit and lifting stay-at-home orders by Thursday. Epidemiologists worry that reopening too soon could cause a second wave of cases, especially if states open before seeing a steady 14-day decline in COVID-19 […]