More Covid Relief Please

Nearly a quarter-million people have died of covid since the pandemic began, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clocking 244,810 total covid-related deaths in the U.S. as of noon today. Over 60,000 Americans are currently hospitalized, according to NBC News, and the rate of hospitalization is also on the rise. With more than a dozen states breaking previously held records for new cases, from Colorado to New Hampshire, state and local governments are reversing reopening measures and imposing new restrictions in the hopes of curbing viral transmission, per NBC News.

In the face of such horrors, compounded by further economic damages to come, you’d hope that Congress would be focused on passing another covid relief bill, or at least finally sending us each that second $1,200 installment that’s been floated for the past few months. Everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Donald Trump has recently said that some kind of relief is urgently needed, CNET reports, but the question remains as to when we can hope to receive it.