When President Biden ended his presidential campaign on July 21, making Vice President Kamala Harris the presumptive Democratic nominee, he unleashed the biggest wave of small-dollar enthusiasm the race has seen.

More than 1.5 million new donors gave to the Harris campaign in the last 11 days of July, according to estimates from a New York Times analysis of donor data filed with the Federal Election Commission. That figure comprises 40 percent of all donors to the Biden and now Harris campaign, which has been raising money since April 2023.

Mr. Biden’s existing donor base was enthusiastic, as well: About 680,000 people who had previously donated to Mr. Biden — just over one-third of his previous donors — came back to give more to Ms. Harris in those 11 days.

More than half a million people total on July 21, and more than 600,000 on July 22, gave to the Democratic presidential campaign through ActBlue, its official fund-raising platform. Their contributions totaled more than $80 million in the first two days. From July 21 through the end of the month, the newly renamed Harris campaign raised $183 million through ActBlue.

The Times’s analysis also combined the donor records with voter registration records to show that new Harris donors were much younger than Biden donors had been. Just 10 percent of Mr. Biden’s donors in July were under 45 years old, compared with 28 percent of Ms. Harris’s donors.

The share of Ms. Harris’s newly acquired donors who were women under 45 was 17 percent — more than double the share of Mr. Biden’s donors who were younger women. Younger men also made up a greater share of Ms. Harris’s donors.

Across all ages, slightly more than 60 percent of both Mr. Biden’s and Ms. Harris’s donors were women.

In a geographic comparison of Mr. Biden’s donors and Ms. Harris’s, the makeup of both pools was very similar. Harris donors were slightly more likely to come from more educated areas: ZIP codes where more than half of those 25 and over had a bachelor’s degree. Ms. Harris also claimed a slightly higher share of first-time small-dollar donors from ZIP codes where more than 5 percent of the population was Black, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau. And differences between the candidates were minor when it came to their ZIP codes’ median household income.

The Times’s analysis did not look at contributions by large donors who give directly to the campaign, fund-raising committees or super PACs without going through ActBlue.

Large donors had been threatening to flee the party after Mr. Biden’s disappointing debate performance, and while some small donors had rushed to the president’s support, they were far outnumbered by the wave of money that flooded in for former President Donald J. Trump after his felony conviction and the attempt on his life.

Full details on donations by large donors will not become clear until October, when the campaign’s associated fund-raising committees are required to file reports with the Federal Election Commission. But on just the strength of small donors alone, the end of July was the most significant fund-raising moment for the Biden or Harris campaign of the entire cycle thus far, and the biggest week for Democratic fund-raising on ActBlue since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Harris campaign in July announced that it had raised over $310 million, more than double what Mr. Trump’s had, on the strength of fund-raising in the last 10 days of the month.

A Georgia couple has filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta hospital after they say hospital staff allegedly misplaced part of the husband’s skull following his brain surgery.

In a lawsuit filed in a DeKalb County, Ga., court, Fernando and Maria Cluster say that staff at Emory University Hospital Midtown caused them “ongoing physical and emotional pain and suffering” and left them with thousands of dollars in medical bills.

Emory Healthcare declined to comment on the lawsuit filed by the Clusters but told NPR in a statement that the hospital system is “committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care for patients and those we serve in our communities.”

The attorney representing the Clusters did not respond to NPR’s immediate request for comment on the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Fernando Cluster was admitted to Emory University Hospital Midtown in September 2022 after he suffered from an intracerebral hemorrhage — a type of stroke in which there’s bleeding inside the brain.

Cluster underwent emergency surgery to treat the bleeding, which also required removing a portion of his skull, according to the lawsuit. During surgery, doctors removed a 12-by-15-centimeter bone flap with the intent of reinstalling it in a follow-up procedure after Cluster healed from his initial operation, the lawsuit says.

But two months later, when Cluster was scheduled to have his follow-up surgery, the hospital supposedly could not locate the bone flap that was removed.

“When Emory’s personnel went to retrieve the bone flap, ‘there were several bone flaps with incomplete or missing patient identification’ and therefore, Emory ‘could not be certain which if any of these belonged to Mr. Cluster,’” the suit reads.

Emory Healthcare staff told Cluster that his bone flap could not be found and that his second surgery would be canceled until a synthetic bone flap was made, resulting in an extended hospital stay, the lawsuit says. Additionally, the Clusters argue that the installed synthetic flap caused an infection that required yet another surgery.

The hospital billed the Clusters for the synthetic flap, the extended hospital stay and the additional procedure, totaling around $146,800, according to the lawsuit. The bill for the installed synthetic flap alone was more than $19,000, The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reported. It is unclear how much of the bill was covered by their insurance, if at all.

The couple alleges in the lawsuit that Fernando Cluster has been unable to work, has experienced “physical and emotional pain and suffering,” and has suffered permanent injuries due to the hospital’s negligence.

The Clusters’ lawsuit does not detail the specific amount they seek but states they seek both “general and special damages.” The couple demanded that the hospital compensate them for damages following a jury trial.

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