COVID news: 3,000 deaths; California stay-at-home orders
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpassed the number of World War II combat fatalities on Thursday night, just hours after a committee of leading U.S. vaccine scientists recommended the Food and Drug Administration authorize the first COVID-19 vaccine for Americans. The vaccine, though, won't help soon enough, said Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning that the country's daily death count will likely rival national tragedies such as the 9/11 terror attacks and Pearl Harbor for months. "We are in the timeframe now that probably for...