After a memo documenting the warning was circulated, at least one investor shifted his position to bet against the economy. The country added about 500,000 confirmed cases, but the true scale of the first surge will probably never be known. “That’s normal, that’s natural, that’s expected.”ADThis is the old Trump argument: Case totals are only rising because we’re testing more. In the first two weeks of the second surge, it rose from 4.3 to 5.8 percent, eventually hitting 8.4 percent. Over the course of the past three months, the relationship between new cases and deaths has been fairly consistent.

Source: Washington Post October 15, 2020 15:21 UTC