Roughly 30.3 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the six weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began forcing millions of employers to close their doors and slash their workforces.
The tally paints a grim picture of the scale of the outbreak in homes tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm. More than 2,700 Medicare-certified nursing homes had publicly reported cases as of Tuesday.
There are growing worries among school officials that fewer students will return this fall. And in a state where funding is doled out per student, a drop in enrollment would mean an immediate financial hit to schools.
Among the concerns is that people—employees and consumers alike—will remain too wary of contracting the coronavirus to return to anything resembling normal economic behavior.
Tests will be administered from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Eastern Star Church’s main campus at 5750 E. 30th St. to address the disparities in the impact of COVID-19 among African Americans and other high-risk populations.
The Nasdaq composite index rose to within 1% of erasing losses for the year, led by Alphabet after it reported an ad-sales slowdown that wasn’t as bad as expected.
By outsourcing the job to Virginia-based Maximus Inc., Indiana health officials hope to take the burden off of local health departments for the time-consuming job of contacting all COVID patients and learning who they might have exposed.
An experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study, shortening the time it takes for patients to recover by almost a third on average, U.S. government and company officials announced Wednesday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that given the depth of the U.S. economic catastrophe, with perhaps 30 million people having lost jobs in the past six weeks, it will “probably will take some time for us to get back to a more normal level of employment and ultimately maximum employment.”
The Indiana State Department of Health said Wednesday that the cumulative death toll in the state rose to 964, up from 901 the previous day—an increase of 63.
During its recent first quarter financial results call, Delta Air Lines announced reductions of 80% in U.S. domestic capacity and 90% international capacity.
It was the sharpest fall since the economy shrank at an 8.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2008 in the depths of the Great Recession.
Even as a few states began reopening some businesses this week, it remains unclear how long it will be before health experts declare it safe to cram ticket-buyers into sweaty arenas, concert halls or even performances of Shakespeare in the park.
Companies are being affected in different ways during the pandemic, but if there’s a common theme, it’s that the situation was bad in the first quarter, and it’s going to get worse.
With states lifting their coronavirus restrictions piecemeal and according to their own, often arbitrary, timetables, Americans are facing a bewildering multitude of decisions about what they should and should not do to protect their health, their livelihoods and their neighbors.
The Covid-19 pandemic is hampering research across the pharmaceutical industry, including at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Tuesday announced it has reached an agreement with a subsidiary of United Health Group to open 20 testing sites around the state in the next week and 50 sites by mid-May.
The National Transportation Safety Board released the findings of its investigation into the July 2018 tragedy that killed nine members of an Indianapolis family.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Tuesday reported that 87,181 people have been tested so far, up from 84,476 in Monday’s report—an increase of 2,705 tests.
Facing criticism, several public companies quickly announced plans to return the money. Others say they need the funds and have no plans to return them.
