* In total, the United States saw 2.49 million new cases within the past week, outpacing the country's previous record of 1.7 million new cases recorded in the one-week period from January 3 through January 9 * The US smashed yet another global COVID infection record on Thursday when 647,067 new cases were reported - up 26 percent from the day before, when 512,533 new cases were reported The US broke a world record for average daily COVID cases for the second day in a row with 647,067 reported on Thursday, according to a analysis of John Hopkins dataĭaily Mail: US smashes global COVID infection record for a second day with 647,067 new cases in 24 hours and 2.5m in a week after experts warned 'we are at the very beginning' of a viral blizzard that will cause de facto shut-down: Deaths halve to 1,400 Exclusive poll: America's fears rise for 2022 (Axios). No wonder Americans are fearful about 2022. WNU Editor: Inflation, crime, and the border are some the top searched U.S.
* Searches related to Biden and the COVID-19 vaccine rounded out the top five topics overall, out of more than 50 major 2021 events and topics chosen by Axios. * Next came searches about stimulus checks at the very start of the year, followed by searches related to Trump during the week of Jan. Four years later, Joe Biden is president and the themes have changed, but America's short attention spans and rapid breaking news cycles continue.īy the numbers: The single topic to receive the highest percentage of Google searches all year was the Olympics, during the week of its opening ceremonies. Why it matters: In the inaugural Axios-Google Trends news cycle chart, we chronicled the unprecedented first year of President Trump. "The findings in the cave on Mount Scorluzzo give us, after over a hundred years, a slice of life at over 3,000 meters above sea level, where the time stopped on Novemwhen the last Austrian soldier closed the door and rushed downhill," reads the museum's press release.Axios: Google Trends for 2021 news topicsīetween a siege on the Capitol building, a Texas snowstorm, Brood X cicadas, the Olympics and a stuck container ship in the Suez Canal - not to mention endless COVID variants - it's been a busy year. It sits at an altitude of 3,094 metres (10,151 feet), just below the peak of Mount Scorluzzo, and excavation work has been carried out each July and August since 2017, removing around 60 cubic meters of ice from the cave.Ī total of 300 objects were recovered, including straw mattresses, coins, helmets, ammunition and newspapers. The shelter was occupied in the first days of the war by Austrian troops, who made it completely invisible from the Italian side or from aerial observation, according to a statement from White War Museum, located in Adamello, northern Italy. The artifacts from the cave shelter are being preserved and will form part of the collection, due to open in late 2022, at a museum dedicated to World War I in the northern Italian town of Bormio, said Morosini. "It's a sort of open air museum," said Morosini, who said that five years ago the bodies of two soldiers were found, along with documents that allowed them to be identified and their remains given to their families. the extreme conditions of life during the First World War," he said, adding that more items appear in the area every summer as the glacier melts. "The artifacts are a representation, like a time machine, of. The cave shelter in northern Italy was accessible to researchers after the surrounding glacier had melted. "Soldiers had to fight against the extreme environment, fight against the snow or the avalanches, but also fight against the enemy," Morosini said. Winter temperatures could drop to -40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit), he added. The artifacts illustrate the "very poor daily life" of the soldiers, who had to deal with "extreme environmental conditions," said Morosini. Inside they found food, dishes and jackets made from animal skins, among many other items, he said. While people knew the shelter existed, researchers were only able to enter it in 2017 as the surrounding glacier had melted, added Morosini, who is scientific coordinator of the heritage project at Stelvio National Park and teaches at the University of Bergamo. Researchers have recovered a treasure trove of World War I artifacts from a cave shelter in northern Italy revealed by the melting of a glacier.ĭuring the war, the cave shelter housed 20 Austrian soldiers stationed at Mount Scorluzzo on the Alpine front, close to the famous Stelvio Pass, historian Stefano Morosini told CNN Tuesday.
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