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This chart shows the states where hospitalizations hit at least 300 people per million in at least two nonconsecutive weeks, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. This level of hospitalization is a good measure of the pandemic’s local severity, both because it captures serious cases that aren’t limited to deaths and because hospitalization data are reliable over short time frames (unlike data for cases and deaths, which can be delayed by weekends and holidays). This cutoff, 300 per million, is somewhat arbitrary, but it captures the states that have generally...

The Exponential Failure of Doing Nothing Share Maryland Cremation Services supervisor Ginger Rowley loads the remains of a covid-19 victim into a cremator in Millersville, Maryland. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. For the past few weeks, the COVID Tracking Project’s graphs have haunted my Twitter feed with growing regularity. If you, to...

Robinson meyer, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> in case you missed it, we'll be back this friday with a brand-new run of our "all in" shows in front of a live studio audience. great news, you can be in that audience. you can find all the details on our went, allin the msnbc.com. plus if you're in chicago, we just released some extra standing room only tickets for our live recording of our podcast. for our live recording of our podcast. that is "all in" for this evening. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. an active duty u.s. army officer in dr...

Each mile of buried power lines. >> oh, my goodness. >> yeah, compared to 800,000 for a mile of above ground lines. so, it's, like, quite a price difference and infrastructure is expensive in the u.s. period, but it's very expensive if you bury it. the second question is, could we be governing the utilities better? should the regulators be exercising more power? should they be forcing money to come -- pg&e is a private utility. so should they be forcing, you know, shareholders to be spending more money on preparation, adaptation? they -- i think they could be certainly more money needs to be s...