36,000 people—a new analysis from Columbia University says that's roughly how many people could have been saved if the US had started social distancing just one week earlier.

The United States has a little more than 4% of the world's population, but almost 30% of the people who have died of COVID-19 worldwide have died here—that's now 100,000 people.

In households where people make less than $40,000 a year, more than one-third lost a job in March.

The true number of [COVID-19] cases in the United States might be 10 times the current number [as of June 25th, 2020]—not the 2.4 million that have already been recorded, but something like more than 20 million asymptomatic cases that have not been recorded.

Recent studies suggest the [SARS-CoV-2] virus could be small enough to spread by way of tiny particles in the air, not just larger particles that land on surfaces.

Still, every day, around 2,000 people die from COVID-19 [in the US], and that number is not going down. In fact, an internal CDC document obtained by 'The New York Times' reportedly says it could go up to 3,000 people dying every day by early June as some states reopen. The leaked CDC projection also says the US could see some 200,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day by the end of this month.

We're soon going to get to the point where everybody in the United States knows someone personally who's very sick with COVID-19. That is going to have an incredibly destabilizing effect on the country.

We're probably going to see another 70-100k [COVID-19] deaths between now and the end of the summer.

People who are more socially connected have stronger immune responses and are more able to fight off a cold virus; those who are less socially connected are less able to fight off cold viruses and are more susceptible to respiratory illnesses.

At this point, as we see in multiple states—from the Carolinas to Tennessee to Arizona—COVID-19 cases are up, testing is not keeping up, and hospitalizations have been rising since Memorial Day... If this is happening, the only way we're going to turn things around without having to lock down again is if we're being assiduous about wearing masks.

In recent years, about 3% of American children have been homeschooled. With the pandemic going on, a recent USA Today poll found that 60% of parents are likely to continue with home-based learning in some form.

We have to remember that the social distancing we're doing right now—that so far has produced promising results in terms of slowing the spread of COVID-19 in the US—is not a cure. It doesn't eliminate the virus; it's a pause button. So, as soon as we release those measures, if we don't do something instead, the cases are going to come back up.

The CDC has come out and said that touching a surface 'isn't thought to be the main way the virus spreads.' It's thought to spread via large airborne droplets, or smaller droplets, that linger in the air in unventilated indoor spaces.

There's converging evidence that children don't play as big a role in spreading the coronavirus as they tend to do with other infectious diseases, like the flu. Children seem to be less likely to catch the coronavirus in the first place, and when they test positive, they have fewer symptoms, like coughing or sneezing, which makes them less likely to pass the disease along.

The best way forward is almost always to accept and make peace with what's true—even if it's something that you wish were otherwise or different.

It took months for the United States to hit 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took 43 days to get to 2 million. This week, we hit 3 million, and that took 28 days.

Take, for instance, Minnesota—the median black family in the Twin Cities makes $38,000 a year; the median white family: $84,000. Nationwide, you can only find worse income inequality in one city: Milwaukee.

Latinx and African American people in the US are three times as likely to become infected with COVID-19 as their white neighbors ... Black and Latinx people are also nearly twice as likely to die from the coronavirus as white people.

What seems to be most dangerous are these spaces that are tightly packed and closed where lots of people are going to be talking, so they're going to be breathing in a lot of the same air—that seems to be the most dangerous place where you see high transmission of COVID-19.

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 76% of Democrats said they wore a mask all or most of the time in stores or other businesses in the past month. For Republicans, that number was 53%.