California surpasses New York as worst-hit state in coronavirus cases

By Anurag Maan and Shaina Ahluwalia

 

FILE PHOTO: Few people wear masks as they walk on the beach pier during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Oceanside, California, U.S., June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - California on Wednesday overtook New York, the original epicenter of the nation's outbreak, as the worst-hit state for cases of COVID-19, according to a Reuters tally of county data.

 

Total cases in the most populous U.S. state climbed above 414,000 with just a handful of California counties reporting 4,700 new cases so far on Wednesday.

 

New York has recorded by far the most deaths of any U.S. state at over 32,000 with California in fourth place with nearly 8,000 deaths.

 

If California were a country, it would rank fifth in the world for total COVID-19 cases behind only the United States, Brazil, India and Russia. New York currently has over 412,800 total cases and is adding on average 700 new cases a day in July. In California there is an average of 8,300 new cases a day.

 

The rapid increase of cases has made it difficult to trace the pathogen's path through the community through contact tracing, a process of interviewing people who test positive for the virus to find out how they were exposed, and whom they in turn might have exposed, California Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly said on Tuesday.

 

"No one anticipated building a program to contact trace the number of cases we’re seeing here," Dr. Ghaly said at a news conference, referring to Los Angeles and other counties struggling to trace cases of the disease.

 

The nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on CNN Tuesday the main issue with testing is that results often do not come back for days, making it too late to do a proper job of contact tracing.

 

Since its crush of cases earlier this year, New York state has gotten the virus under control, reporting the fewest hospitalizations in four months on Monday and only two deaths on Tuesday.

 

About 142,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 - nearly a quarter of the global total.

 

(Reporting by Anurag Maan and Shaina Ahluwalia in Bengaluru, and Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Bill Tarrant, Tom Brown and Jonathan Oatis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-07-23

 

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Hope they get a handle on it ASAP!!! 

Yea!  We are number one!  

CAL havnt reach herd immunity yet

Safe to say NY had way more cases than were confirmed, easily noted by their case fatality rate. 
 

Also safe to say that the virus has already ripped through the community in NY as well, so no wonder their cases are so low now. It’s no victory. 
 

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Few people wear masks as they walk on the beach pier during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Oceanside, California, U.S., June 22, 2020.

The freedom of every individual to express themselves and the ability to act consequently is reaching it's limits in time of Corona .

Who , living in a state with exponential growth of Virus infections , still deliberately ignores all the safety regulations , takes the risk of becoming infected and dying from this ...

In this case , even more lethal than the virus itself , is stupidity .

 

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by nobodysfriend

Looking at that photo all I can say is, it serves them right

When I see this picture I think of the old saying give me liberty or give me death.

The corona virus is now giving a lot of them sickness and death.

  I hope that the majority of them get with the program soon or the USA will

certainly decline a lot more in its pupulation.

Geezer

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

The freedom of every individual to express themselves and the ability to act consequently is reaching it's limits in time of Corona .

Who , living in a state with exponential growth of Virus infections , still deliberately ignores all the safety regulations , takes the risk of becoming infected and dying from this ...

In this case , even more lethal than the virus itself , is stupidity .

 

 

 

ok, COUNT all the very obese people in this picture

 

they are a sure candidate to be NEXT

3 hours ago, scammed said:

CAL havnt reach herd immunity yet

 

No where in the world has. Far from it.

Several off topic posts have been removed

What a shame

" I have constitutional rights not to wear a face mask and not to practice social distancing ".

After seeing the idiots carelessly protesting a few weeks ago plus virus parties, it’s no surprise the payoff arrives now.

1 minute ago, twocatsmac said:

After seeing the idiots carelessly protesting a few weeks ago plus virus parties, it’s no surprise the payoff arrives now.

Apparently, according to CNN, it's impossible to get COVID while rioting. The saliva and spit from screaming for hours on end is completely harmless

1 hour ago, spiekerjozef said:

" I have constitutional rights not to wear a face mask and not to practice social distancing ".

Please do so in the privacy of your own home...

5 hours ago, scammed said:

CAL havnt reach herd immunity yet

Dr. Anthony Fauci warns the coronavirus won’t ever be eradicated https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/dr-anthony-fauci-warns-the-coronavirus-wont-ever-be-totally-eradicated.html

2 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

No where in the world has. Far from it.

data suggest regions that took a hit early on are now close to herd immunity

 

29 minutes ago, scammed said:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1174220-rallies-won’t-spread-covid-19-if-precautions-taken-expert/?tab=comments#comment-15641805

That link does not take you to anyone at CNN claiming protests won’t spread COVID-19 as the poster I quoted stated. 

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by Bluespunk

4 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

That link does not take you to anyone at CNN claiming protests won’t spread COVID-19 as the poster I quoted stated. 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/coronavirus-cases-protests-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html

Black Lives Matter protests have not led to a spike in coronavirus cases, research says

 

a bit odd that entire countries need to shut down economy,

stop working, stop going out drinking or eating, 

go to the beach, and survey the entire population with drones so none

put the quarantine at risk,

 

but its fine to gather in the thousands and throw bricks on others property

 

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by scammed

19 minutes ago, scammed said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/coronavirus-cases-protests-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html

Black Lives Matter protests have not led to a spike in coronavirus cases, research says

 

a bit odd that entire countries need to shut down economy,

stop working, stop going out drinking or eating, 

go to the beach, and survey the entire population with drones so none

put the quarantine at risk,

 

but its fine to gather in the thousands and throw bricks on others property

 

So that is a report on research saying the entirely legitimate BLM protests did not lead to a spike in COVID-19 cases. 
 

That is a report on facts, not CNN making claims.
 

Still, good to know the peaceful, sensible and responsible actions of the BLM protestors helped prevent a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by Bluespunk

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

So that is a report on research saying the entirely legitimate BLM protests did not lead to a spike in COVID-19 cases. 
 

That is a report on facts, not CNN making claims.
 

Still, good to know the sensible and responsible actions of the BLM protestors helped prevent a spike in COVID-19 cases.

data indicate it did spike after the protest though, at 3 minute

 

Troll posts and replies have been removed.

 

A post with links to conspiracy-pseudoscience sites has been removed as well as the replies. 

10 minutes ago, scammed said:

data indicate it did spike after the protest though, at 3 minute

 

Yet the research and facts says different.

 

Either way it is false to state CNN is making claims, when all it is doing is accurately reporting the facts and the news.  
 

As to herd immunity, nothing so far indicates it is a possible solution or will even happen.
 

Vaccine is the way forward and until then lets practice social distancing and wear masks.

 

As they say in the purge movie franchise “stay safe”

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by Bluespunk

3 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Yet the research says different.

 

Either way it is false to claim CNN is making claims, when all it is doing is accurately reporting the facts and the news.  

more specifically, cnn are reporting the narrative that the rally didnt cause a spike,

its not fact, its a narrative, the graph in the video from 3 to 3.15 contradict the narrative

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by scammed

7 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

Safe to say NY had way more cases than were confirmed, easily noted by their case fatality rate. 
 

Also safe to say that the virus has already ripped through the community in NY as well, so no wonder their cases are so low now. It’s no victory. 

With thanks to the total stupidity of the US government, inclusive the local, and the behaviour of the US people. With 143.000 deaths per 330 mln inhabitants, still far behind the UK with 44.000 casulaties for 67,5 million inhabitants. So, keep beachers, bars, pubs, restaurants open, social distancing of one foot is enough and facemasks... CHINESE... boycot them...

4 minutes ago, scammed said:

more specifically, cnn are reporting the narrative that the rally didnt cause a spike,

its not fact, its a narrative, the graph in the video from 3 to 3.15 contradict the narrative

I’ve watched your YouTube vid and it has only reinforced my belief that it is promoting a narrative that is rooted in theories that are not based on facts, honest use of evidence or science. . 

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by Bluespunk

17 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

I’ve watched your YouTube vid and it has only reinforced my belief that it is promoting a narrative that is rooted in theories that are not based on facts, honest use of evidence or science. . 

they are rooted in data, as they correspond with the graphs,

the cnn and the narrative they reported on, otoh is in contradiction with the data graphs,

in that video.

for example the narrative that regions that was hit hard early on are reaching herd immunity

corresponds with the rate of new cases that has dropped off over 80%,

while the narratives that the rally didnt increase covid cases in houston

and that masks make or lockdown a significant difference contradict documented cases

as displaced in the graphs

4 hours ago, Canuck1966 said:

Apparently, according to CNN, it's impossible to get COVID while rioting. The saliva and spit from screaming for hours on end is completely harmless

Most of the demonstrators have enough sense to wear masks even including the few who riot. Trump supporters when they demonstrate, not so much.

19 minutes ago, scammed said:

they are rooted in data, as they correspond with the graphs,

the cnn and the narrative they reported on, otoh is in contradiction with the data graphs,

in that video.

for example the narrative that regions that was hit hard early on are reaching herd immunity

corresponds with the rate of new cases that has dropped off over 80%,

while the narratives that the rally didnt increase covid cases in houston

and that masks make or lockdown a significant difference contradict documented cases

as displaced in the graphs

Yeah, right. 
 

I stand by my previous post. 

Edited July 23, 20205 yr by Bluespunk