Record spikes in new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations sweep parts of U.S.

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Record spikes in new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations sweep parts of U.S.

By Lisa Shumaker

 

FILE PHOTO: People drink outside a bar during the reopening phase following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in the East Village neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S., June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - New coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in record numbers swept through more U.S. states, including Florida and Texas, as most push ahead with reopening and President Donald Trump plans an indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

Alabama reported a record number of new cases for the fourth day in a row on Sunday. Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and South Carolina all had record numbers of new cases in the past three days, according to a Reuters tally.

 

Many state health officials partly attribute the increase to gatherings over the Memorial Day holiday weekend in late May.

 

In Louisiana, which had been one of the earlier virus hot spots, new cases were again on the rise with over 1,200 - the most there since May 21.

 

Nationally, there were over 25,000 new cases reported on Saturday, the highest tally for a Saturday since May 2, in part due to a significant increase in testing over the past six weeks.

 

Perhaps more troubling for health officials, many of these states are also seeing record hospitalizations - a metric not affected by increased testing.

 

Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas and Utah all had a record number of patients enter the hospital on Saturday. In South Carolina, 69% to 77% of hospital beds are occupied, depending on the region.

 

New coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in record numbers swept through more U.S. states, including Florida and Texas, as most push ahead with reopening and President Donald Trump plans an indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This report produced by Yahaira Jacquez.

 

While Utah's governor announced last week that most counties there would pause their reopenings, most states are not considering a second shutdown as they face budget shortfalls and double-digit unemployment. Many went ahead with reopenings before meeting government infection rate guidelines for doing so.

 

New York, the hardest hit state, has utilized health guidelines to instruct its reopening and continued to see all measures of infection drop - new cases, deaths, hospitalizations and positive rates among those getting tested.

 

However, Governor Andrew Cuomo warned New York City and Long Island officials on Sunday that their reopenings were at risk if they do not stop further large public gatherings that he said are threatening progress on curbing the spread of the coronavirus.

 

Cuomo said the state has received 25,000 complaints recently of violations of social distancing and other emergency requirements, mostly in Manhattan and the Hamptons, affluent beach communities on the east end of Long Island.

 

“Yes, there is a very real possibility that we would roll back the reopening in those areas,” he said at a briefing.

 

Fears that a second wave of infections is happening - or that states failed to curb their first wave - prompted health officials to plead with the public to wear masks and avoid large gatherings.

 

Trump still plans to hold his first campaign rally since early March on Saturday in Tulsa, although those attending will have to agree not to hold the campaign responsible if they contract COVID-19.

 

About a third of the record new cases in the state came from Tulsa County, according to state data. The Tulsa Health Department on Friday said the outbreak was linked to indoor gatherings. Hospitalizations and the percent of tests coming back positive have been steady in the state.

 

"I have concerns about large groups of people gathering indoors for prolonged lengths of time. It is imperative that anyone who chooses to host or attend a gathering take the steps to stay safe," said Bruce Dart, the department’s executive director, in a statement that advised people at gatherings to wear masks.

 

Trump has refused to wear a mask at a series of recent public events.

 

(Reporting by Lisa Shumaker in Chicago; Additional reporting by Peter Szekely in New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-06-15

 

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[Tug]

But but donald said it would all just disappear like magic in April 

[pegman]

I just sent Justin an email demanding he keep the border closed. 

[samran]

So much for only 15 people having it and it magically going away. 
 

Can we blame Hillary for any of this yet?

[GalaxyMan]

Tulsa better gets lots of hospital beds ready. ????

[stevenl]

1 minute ago, GalaxyMan said:

Tulsa better gets lots of hospital beds ready. ????

Problem is the results won't start to show until beginning of July.

[Cryingdick]

" in part due to a significant increase in testing over the past six weeks."

 

Guess they are shifting back to this as the rioting dwindles down.

[Tounge Thaied]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Perhaps more troubling for health officials, many of these states are also seeing record hospitalizations - a metric not affected by increased testing.

 

Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas and Utah all had a record number of patients enter the hospital on Saturday. In South Carolina, 69% to 77% of hospital beds are occupied, depending on the region.

I call b...<deleted>. The increased numbers are a part of increased testing... of course. Testing is become more and more pervasive and any normal hospital any day of the week is normally at 69%-77% full. These hospitals just don't build hospital wings full of beds and leave them empty. America's so called "healthcare system" is a for profit disease management scam. What is being reported here does not have much to do with any surge in Covid19. Go and test as aggressively with Influenza A and B, an equal killer, and you will be able to claim yet another pandemic. Still no real emergency folks... Search for the critical care nurse who tells the truth about the Epicenter of the Epicenter at Elmhurst Hospital in New York. Watch that and you will understand <deleted> is really going on.

[Mama Noodle]

So I see we are moving back to this <deleted> again now that the leftwing rioting and massive gatherings democrat states have subsided.

[Tounge Thaied]

2 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

So I see we are moving back to this <deleted> again now that the leftwing rioting and massive gatherings democrat states have subsided.

Exactly!!! I did see today that the WHO has dismissed Dr. Bill Gates' assessment that a second wave is coming... 

[johnpetersen]

20 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

" in part due to a significant increase in testing over the past six weeks."

 

Guess they are shifting back to this as the rioting dwindles down.

Wrong. It's not a matter of more people being tested and therefore more positives There are more people actually being hospitalized.

[LomSak27]

 

Looks like the National leadership in this health emergency supplied by US president Donald Trump, is working out fine.????, no need for masks or isolation, everything is fine. 

 

[MyTHaiMyKe]

Fake news! It has already been reported that this is not true! Just another democrat fear mongering report!

[cyril sneer]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Many state health officials partly attribute the increase to gatherings over the Memorial Day holiday weekend in late May.

yes, can't be for any other reason

[johnpetersen]

20 minutes ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

Fake news! It has already been reported that this is not true! Just another democrat fear mongering report!

Fake news is when you claim there's a report but don't actually provide a link or any other evidence to back it up.

[Chomper Higgot]

43 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

" in part due to a significant increase in testing over the past six weeks."

 

Guess they are shifting back to this as the rioting dwindles down.

But didn’t Trump say two months ago that tests are available for anyone who needs one?

 

He seems to know something about it, or he’d not be insisting those who want to attend his up coming rally sign an indemnity clearing his campaign organization of responsibility if attendees get sick with this disease that he said wasn’t going to be around past April. 

[samran]

38 minutes ago, Tounge Thaied said:

Exactly!!! I did see today that the WHO has dismissed Dr. Bill Gates' assessment that a second wave is coming... 

well technically for a second wave to occur you need your first wave to end. Which it hasn’t! 

[johnpetersen]

9 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

But didn’t Trump say two months ago that tests are available for anyone who needs one?

 

He seems to know something about it, or he’d not be insisting those who want to attend his up coming rally sign an indemnity clearing his campaign organization of responsibility if attendees get sick with this disease that he said wasn’t going to be around past April. 

Cryingdick's comment didn't make sense anyway since it's actual hospitalizations that have increased. The testing rate is entirely irrelevant to that situation.

[Mama Noodle]

10 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

But didn’t Trump say two months ago that tests are available for anyone who needs one?

 

He seems to know something about it, or he’d not be insisting those who want to attend his up coming rally sign an indemnity clearing his campaign organization of responsibility if attendees get sick with this disease that he said wasn’t going to be around past April. 

 

Petty straw men aside, why does it bother you so badly that Trump wants to have a rally after 2 WEEKS of straight mass gatherings, riots, looting, and everything else under the sun that everyone on the left supported and promoted? 

 

Its nauseating hypocrisy. 

[samran]

2 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Petty straw men aside, why does it bother you so badly that Trump wants to have a rally after 2 WEEKS of straight mass gatherings, riots, looting, and everything else under the sun that everyone on the left supported and promoted? 

 

Its nauseating hypocrisy. 

I guess normal humans have problems with watching a man asking to people put their health on the line so they can stroke his ego. 
 

Or will he be giving out free Lysol at the rally so people will be okay?

[Mama Noodle]

Just now, samran said:

I guess normal humans have problems with watching a man asking to people put their health on the line so they can stroke his ego. 

 

But supporting, promoting, giving space to, and astroturfing mass protests and gatherings in direct contradiction of state stay-at-home orders by the left is completely fine?

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, Tounge Thaied said:

I call b...<deleted>. The increased numbers are a part of increased testing... of course. Testing is become more and more pervasive and any normal hospital any day of the week is normally at 69%-77% full. These hospitals just don't build hospital wings full of beds and leave them empty. America's so called "healthcare system" is a for profit disease management scam. What is being reported here does not have much to do with any surge in Covid19. Go and test as aggressively with Influenza A and B, an equal killer, and you will be able to claim yet another pandemic. Still no real emergency folks... Search for the critical care nurse who tells the truth about the Epicenter of the Epicenter at Elmhurst Hospital in New York. Watch that and you will understand <deleted> is really going on.

Glad to see the knowledge of the hospitals is better on TVF than it is with the hospitals.

 

If they report higher number of hospitalisations than normal, there are higher number of hospitalisations than normal.

[johnpetersen]

19 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Petty straw men aside, why does it bother you so badly that Trump wants to have a rally after 2 WEEKS of straight mass gatherings, riots, looting, and everything else under the sun that everyone on the left supported and promoted? 

 

Its nauseating hypocrisy. 

As is the hypocrisy typified by the refusal to condemn Trump for supporting rallies and making it a covid waiver a condition for attending.

[blazes]

1 hour ago, samran said:

So much for only 15 people having it and it magically going away. 
 

Can we blame Hillary for any of this yet?

 

No, no, no, that is not fair to HRC .  Hillary is herself a virus who infects the nation the moment she opens her mouth.   Ask Bill.

[samran]

10 minutes ago, blazes said:

 

No, no, no, that is not fair to HRC .  Hillary is herself a virus who infects the nation the moment she opens her mouth.   Ask Bill.

Haha. Touché. 

[JonnyF]

COVID-19 is clearly racist, going after all those "largely peaceful" BLM protesters who crowded together for days of looting and rioting.

 

This virus must be de-platformed immediately. If you don't agree, you're racist and a right wing extremist. How do I know? Because Silence is Violence.

[JensenZ]

2 hours ago, Tug said:

But but donald said it would all just disappear like magic in April 

More fake news.  

[samran]

32 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

But supporting, promoting, giving space to, and astroturfing mass protests and gatherings in direct contradiction of state stay-at-home orders by the left is completely fine?

Did they Astro turf the bloke failing to breath while being arrested as well? 
 

Since when did you fellas become champions of the nanny state? We live in strange times. 

[Srikcir]

1 hour ago, Tounge Thaied said:

I call b...<deleted>. The increased numbers are a part of increased testing... of course. Testing is become more and more pervasive and any normal hospital any day of the week is normally at 69%-77% full. These hospitals just don't build hospital wings full of beds and leave them empty. America's so called "healthcare system" is a for profit disease management scam. What is being reported here does not have much to do with any surge in Covid19. Go and test as aggressively with Influenza A and B, an equal killer, and you will be able to claim yet another pandemic. Still no real emergency folks... Search for the critical care nurse who tells the truth about the Epicenter of the Epicenter at Elmhurst Hospital in New York. Watch that and you will understand <deleted> is really going on.

There may be some basis for resurgence of influenza that could parallel Covid19 as a killer. Since Trump's POTUS election there has been anecdotal evidence that there has been a resurgence against vaccinations of any kind. 

[Eric Loh]

I miss the daily briefing and medication tips from the commander in chief. Comic relief in midst of gloomy times.