On Jan. 21, the first confirmed Covid-19 case in the U.S. was disclosed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when an infected traveler returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China.

New York, where I live, and Florida, where I often visit, provide an interesting contrast. The United States’ big cities are incubators of growth, vitality and energy. That’s why the spotlight ...

California and New York, on the other hand, lost 180,000 and 114,000 residents respectively. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the contrast is even more stark: Florida welcomed 655,000 new ...