Americans protest covid-19 restrictions

Protesters across the U.S. rally against stay-at-home orders aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus. Leading coronavirus modeling shows the country’s collective sacrifice of an economic shutdown — which has resulted in over 30 million jobless claims — has likely prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths, serving as a sign that social distancing is effective. Protests to reopen economies have been held across the U.S. over the last few months as the number of coronavirus cases and fatalities continues to rise. COVID-19 has infected more than 1.4 million people and killed over 85,000 in the U.S., per Johns Hopkins data.