What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

 


Thousands of new coronavirus infections are being reported daily, many of them job-related, even as President Donald Trump urges people to return to work.

There are plenty of new infections outside the workplace, including in nursing homes, and among retired and unemployed people. Yet all of the 15 U.S. counties with the highest per capita infection rates between April 28 and May 5 are homes to meatpacking and poultry-processing plants or state prisons, according to data compiled by The Associated Press.

There's been a spike of new infections among construction workers in Austin, Texas, where...



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