Politics
Covid’s Persistence Leads GOP, Democrats to Half Measures
- Partisan divide narrows among governors as pandemic drags on
- Facing case surge, they aim to blunt the spread until vaccine
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has imposed an almost-statewide curfew of 10 p.m.
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In the pandemic’s first months, the gulf between Republican and Democratic governors was vast. Allied with President Donald Trump, most Republicans refused to impose basic public-health restrictions such as mask-wearing, while Democrats closed huge swaths of their states’ economies.
Today, many find themselves implementing similar, somewhat half-hearted,
measures -- a bipartisan weariness aimed less at deep change than easing the strain on medical systems and buying time until a vaccine arrives.