With the number of coronavirus cases rising rapidly in many US southern states, Vice President Mike Pence has called on people in affected areas to wear masks and maintain social distancing, in a noteworthy departure from the White House’s guidance. Half a million people have now died from the disease around the world, a quarter of whom in the United States.
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