The Morning Dispatch: It’s Kamala
Happy Wednesday! If you had Kamala Harris as vice presidential nominee on your 2020 bingo card, you’re in luck.
Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories
The United States confirmed 51,096 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, with 6.9 percent of the 739,083 tests reported coming back positive. An additional 1,103 deaths were attributed to the virus on Tuesday, bringing the pandemic’s American death toll to 164,528.
Fully half of Americans now know someone who’s tested positive for the coronavirus, up from 41 percent last month, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll. One in five knows someone who’s died.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 NCAA conferences announced Tuesday they would postpone all fall sports, including football, until spring at the earliest. Other conferences are still moving forward with plans for their seasons, albeit with truncated schedules.
