The ebbs and flows of the coronavirus pandemic have set the rhythm in the US in 2020, a year that was expected to focus on the race for the White House.
Since the United States recorded its first coronavirus case in January, Donald Trump has declared dozens of times that the virus will simply “go away”.
But now, in the week that voters cast their judgement on the record of the President, the pandemic is, on many measures, worse than it has ever been in the United States.
The country has just recorded in a single week the same number of infections that it took three months to accrue at the…