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The coronavirus is spreading at breakneck speed in the United States. The numbers are constantly breaking new records, and the fallout from the Thanksgiving travel boom is just beginning to show.
Employees at a corona testing station in San Francisco wait for people who want to get tested.
Bruce McGillis found perhaps the clearest words in a nursing home in Ohio, where he tries to protect himself from the incessant wave of new infections that are approaching by quarantining his room. “I feel like I’m on the ‘Titanic’ and we’re sinking,” he said in an interview with a Washington Post reporter. He put into words a state of mind that is sometimes almost tangible in America. Daily it is reported that vaccines are close to rescue. But hope quickly alternates with shock at the stubbornly growing number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths; and also with disappointment with the number of doses of vaccine available and with doubts about the safety and reliability of immunization.
