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This Day in COVID: June 28, 2020

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‘They Want to Kill Me’: Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Delirium

New York Times

Extreme inequality was the preexisting condition': How COVID-19 widened America's wealth gap

As 45 million Americans lost their jobs, U.S. billionaires got $584 billion richer.

ABC

Some COVID-19 patients aren't getting better. Major medical centers are trying to figure out how to help.

'What we need is more research to explain where the symptoms are coming from,' one expert said.

NBC

Dozens arrested as Hong Kongers protest planned national security laws

Reuters

Miami and Fort Lauderdale beaches closing for Fourth of July amid coronavirus concerns

CNN

Fauci says Covid-19 vaccine may not get US to herd immunity if too many people refuse to get it

CNN

Real men wear masks': Nancy Pelosi says Trump should 'be an example to the country'

Pelosi said a nationwide mandate to wear masks is 'long overdue,' pointing to research that suggests masks effectively prevent COVID-19 transmission.

Business Insider

Trump’s self-defeating resistance to mask wearing says it all

CNN

Timeline: How the global coronavirus pandemic unfolded

Reuters

Pandemic Causes China To Ban Breeding Of Bamboo Rats And Other Wild Animals

The idea is to reduce the risk of spread of viruses through animal-human contact. Bamboo rat breeders are devastated by the loss of income. And critics say the ban has too many loopholes.

NPR

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Scientific American

Plastic waste surges as coronavirus prompts restaurants to use more disposable packaging

The surge in single-use plastic is a major blow to the fight against plastic pollution, which is projected to increase by 40% in the next decade.

CNBC

Our Mission

The COVID-19 History Project is a curated archive of the events and policy decisions surrounding the emergence of COVID-19.

The pandemic era of 2020-2022 saw massive increases in restrictions on daily life—enforced by the government and by social stigma—accompanied social protests that roiled cities worldwide

In the United States alone, trillions of dollars were spent by the federal government to offset the forced closure of businesses and the devastation of normal life.

The impacts of these policy decisions are still being felt today.

Some would like us to forget the actions and people that played a significant role during the pandemic.

But we of the COVID-19 History Project don't want to forget. Through our work, we hope there will always be an archive to learn from and interpret this fascinating, disturbing, time in world history.

The Timeline

In order to learn from the mistakes of the past, and give COVID-19 decision makers the credit—both good and bad—they deserve, we have compiled a media timeline from every day of the pandemic.

We have endeavored to make the timeline comprehensive without being duplicative, following the major trends as they unfolded.

We provided analyses for each month highlighting major events, but encourage readers to make their own conclusions about these events as well.

This Day in COVID: June 28, 2021

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