November 12, 2020 News Brief

“The number of new daily coronavirus cases in the United States jumped from 104,000 a week earlier to more than 145,000 on Wednesday, an all-time high. Nearly every metric is trending in the wrong direction, prompting states to add new restrictions and hospitals to prepare for a potentially dark future.”

[As coronavirus soars, hospitals hope to avoid an agonizing choice: Who gets care and who goes home  - The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/11/coronavirus-soars-hospitals-hope-avoid-an-agonizing-choice-who-gets-care-who-goes-home/)

Biden picked Ron Klain to be his White House chief of staff. Klain is a longtime Biden confidante and veteran Democratic operative who coordinated the Obama administration’s response to Ebola.

Georgia will recount its presidential ballots by hand, as the Trump campaign requested. Officials said it was unlikely to erase Biden’s 14,000-vote lead.

NASA officially certified a SpaceX spacecraft for human flight this week, marking the first time that NASA has granted the approval for a commercial spacecraft. 

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