U.S. breaks daily record for coronavirus cases with over 84,000 new infections

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U.S. breaks daily record for coronavirus cases with over 84,000 new infections

By Anurag Maan

 

Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) Jermaine LeFlore and Shameka Johnson (right, in NFL Green Bay Packers apparel) process nasal swab samples at a drive-thru testing site outside the Southside Health Center as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan

 

(Reuters) - The United States broke its daily record for new coronavirus infections on Friday as it reported 84,218 new cases due to outbreaks in virtually every part of the country, according to a Reuters tally.

 

The spike in cases comes less than two weeks before the presidential election on Nov. 3 and is hitting battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. On Thursday, the United States reported a near-record 76,195 new cases.

 

The previous record was 77,299 new cases on July 16. At the time, hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients hit 47,000 and two weeks later deaths rose to an average of 1,200 per day.

 

Now, hospitalizations are over 41,000 and deaths average nearly 800 per day. Sixteen states had record one-day increases in new cases on Friday and 11 reported a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

 

Health experts have not pinpointed the reason for the rise but have long warned that colder temperatures driving people inside, fatigue with COVID-19 precautions and students returning to schools and colleges, could promote the spread of the virus.

 

The United States has the most cases in the world at 8.5 million and the most fatalities with 224,000 lives lost. The United States has reported over the past week an average of 60,000 new cases per day, the highest seven-day average since early August.

 

The Midwest has been the epicenter of the latest surge but infections are rising nationwide.

 

The Northeast reported an 83% increase in cases in the past month. New cases have doubled in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New Jersey in the past four weeks as compared to the prior four weeks, according to a Reuters analysis.

 

Western states including Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming have reported a 200% increase in cases in the past four weeks when compared with the previous four weeks.

 

(Reporting by Anurag Maan in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

 

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[Tie Dye Samurai]

hey...Donald Trump says we are turning the corner....Donald Trump says the virus is gonna go away...Donald Trump says other countries are congratulating him on his unprecedented response to the pandemic....Donald Trump says we have a cure and he is going to give everybody a big fat kiss...Donald Trump is an idiot

[rasmus5150]

I'm sure that D.Trump has this kind of response to the spiking numbers.

 

"All new infected are Biden supporters, that gets infected on purpose to generate bad press"

Or

"It's good that there are so many infections, so the US can become mass-immune and save money on administering the vaccine to all it's citizens"

Or

Fake News

[dunroaming]

I am sure all the Trump supporters will be shouting  "Fake News" along with their orange man-child hero!

[RickG16]

. Editing as I remembered you can't even comment about the US, especially as a non American, without getting flung to one or other of the two sides... you aren't allowed to make a simple comment or ask a simple question. You have to hate or love Trump. 

 

The country of extremes, no middle ground, what a mess. 

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by RickG16

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2 minutes ago, RickG16 said:

What a mess.... could this be because they are doing more testing?

No. Hospitalizations  are also rising sharply.

[Traubert]

No, its because the disease is running amok in the States because people refuse to take precautions.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

More on this, from the NYT:

 

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The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 has already risen 40 percent in the past month. Deaths have remained relatively flat but are often a lagging indicator.

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Fifteen states have added more new confirmed coronavirus cases in the past week than in any other seven-day stretch. As of Friday, six states had set or tied weekly records for new deaths. Wisconsin had its deadliest day of the pandemic on Wednesday, with 47 total deaths announced.

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in North Dakota this week, hospitals are striving to find available beds. The state now has the worst rate of infection in the country, relative to its population, and it is ending formal contact tracing except in health care settings, schools and colleges. Members of the National Guard are calling people to tell them they have tested positive.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/covid-worst-day.html

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

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The current surge is considerably more widespread than the waves from last summer and spring. The unprecedented geographic spread of the current surge makes it more dangerous, with experts warning it could lead to dire shortages of medical staff and supplies. Already, hospitals are reporting shortfalls of basic drugs needed to treat covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
 

And it’s not simply a matter of increased testing identifying more cases. Covid-19 hospitalizations increased in 38 states over the past week. The number of deaths nationally has crested above 1,000 in recent days.

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More than 170 counties across 36 states were designated rapidly rising hotspots, according to an internal federal report produced Thursday for officials at the Department of Health and Human Services and obtained by The Post.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/23/covid-us-spike-cases/

 

 

[earlinclaifornia]

Contact tracing and mask enforcement for all of America is the start.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

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One way to look at it is to compare the death toll in the United States with outcomes in other, similar countries. That's the approach taken by researchers with Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness. This week, they released a report estimating that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from covid-19 didn't need to occur, had the country's response been as effective as those of other nations.

 

In South Korea, where the first infection was detected on the same day as the United States, there have been only 0.85 deaths per 100,000 residents. That's largely a function of the robust containment measures the country undertook right off the bat, unrolling a broad testing regimen that allowed it to halt the progression of the virus. Had the United States been able to do something similar and achieved a 0.85 per 100,000 death rate, only about 2,800 people would have died here.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/23/how-many-coronavirus-deaths-are-truly-attributable-trump/

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Redline]

Tired of winning yet?  In what used to be the most revered country for tackling a pandemic

[GinBoy2]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/23/how-many-coronavirus-deaths-are-truly-attributable-trump/

 

This a perplexing question, 'what if'.

 

I just posted this graph over in the thread regarding Macron's comments.

 

The mortality ratio is what you need to look at. I took US, France, Sweden and the UK. You can play with the data yourself and pull more countries.

 

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=USA~FRA~SWE~GBR

[LomSak27]

Just now, GinBoy2 said:

This a perplexing question, 'what if'.

 - link to WaPost article ---- 

 

And I would like to read that article ..... However .......My wifi Co has blocked The Washington Post (along with others) for a month now.     ????    

[Lacessit]

The number of active cases hovered around 2.5 million in America for some months. It is now at 2.8 million, and I suspect it is accelerating as winter comes.

Unfortunately, the virus is not selective for idiocy. Those maskless people attending Trump rallies are no more likely to die of the virus than those that don't.

America is a giant petri dish, with plenty of political nutrient.

[dunroaming]

18 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

 - link to WaPost article ---- 

 

And I would like to read that article ..... However .......My wifi Co has blocked The Washington Post (along with others) for a month now.     ????    

Use a proxy server.  Widely used these days 

[Sujo]

Trump covid policy. It will go away.

Trumps healthcare policy, it will go away.

All trumps policies can be written on a postage stamp. It is what it is

 

 

Thats it. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

This a perplexing question, 'what if'.

 

I just posted this graph over in the thread regarding Macron's comments.

 

The mortality ratio is what you need to look at. I took US, France, Sweden and the UK. You can play with the data yourself and pull more countries.

 

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=USA~FRA~SWE~GBR

Don't think so. Did you notice this advisory on the graph?

Case fatality rate of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is the ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases. During an outbreak of a pandemic the CFR is a poor measure of the mortality risk of the disease. We explain this in detail at  OurWorldInData.org/Coronavirus

Here's the precise link: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-mortality-risk

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[animalmagic]

3 hours ago, earlinclaifornia said:

Contact tracing and mask enforcement for all of America is the start.

It was the start ten months ago!

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12 minutes ago, animalmagic said:

It was the start ten months ago!

If the US is fortunate, contact tracing may finally start up on Jan 20th, 2021. Although it's going to be a hugely more costly than it would have been had it been done from the start. 

[Tug]

Trump surrendered to covid when he realized to deal with it it would hurt the economy hurting his chances of re-election with the caveat of his narcissism not allowing him to delegate the handeling of the response to competent personnel and stand back leave them alone.he continues to hold super spreader events (rallies) the callous disregard for us is staggering let’s end the chaos and get a handle on this virus manage your risk follow safe protocols don’t be a spreader and good luck

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3 minutes ago, Tug said:

Trump surrendered to covid when he realized to deal with it it would hurt the economy hurting his chances of re-election with the caveat of his narcissism not allowing him to delegate the handeling of the response to competent personnel and stand back leave them alone.he continues to hold super spreader events (rallies) the callous disregard for us is staggering let’s end the chaos and get a handle on this virus manage your risk follow safe protocols don’t be a spreader and good luck

I believe a huge factor in his denial is his huge financial exposure to a shutdown of domestic tourism. In addition, not only did he wait for 40 days after sort of shut down air travel from china to cut off air travel to continental europe,, but he waited another 4 to do the same to the UK and Ireland. 2 countries where he happens to have 3 golf resorts. 3 resorts that already were a financial drain. I think a lot of the lunatic assertions he made about the imminent decline of covid-19 and his push for a premature reopening were made out of panic. He has big loans coming due on his properties. Properties that have declined in value thanks both to his having his name attached to them and to the pandemic. And the banks mistrust him so much that he is personally responsible for almost half a billion in loans.

[Meat Pie 47]

6 hours ago, Traubert said:

No, its because the disease is running amok in the States because people refuse to take precautions.

Yes watch the super spreaders holding a Halloween party in the white house 

[Scott]

Troll posts removed along with replies. 

[ujayujay]

Its painful, but Pinocchio cant do anything now, because he's busy with his reelection.......

[RoadWarrior371]

6 hours ago, Lacessit said:

The number of active cases hovered around 2.5 million in America for some months. It is now at 2.8 million, and I suspect it is accelerating as winter comes.

Unfortunately, the virus is not selective for idiocy. Those maskless people attending Trump rallies are no more likely to die of the virus than those that don't.

America is a giant petri dish, with plenty of political nutrient.

 

So if America infection is up 20% in the recent week with no economic shutdown, what does that make European countries that are up 100+ % in infections, and also locked down and destroyed what was left of their pitiful economies.  No need to list them, they know who they are.  I would call that a 'super-idiot' policy.  Take a note that the virus does not follow anyone's rules. ????

 

 

 

[Meat Pie 47]

4 minutes ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

 

So if America infection is up 20% in the recent week with no economic shutdown, what does that make European countries that are up 100+ % in infections, and also locked down and destroyed what was left of their pitiful economies.  No need to list them, they know who they are.  I would call that a 'super-idiot' policy.  Take a note that the virus does not follow anyone's rules. ????

 

 

 

Just to point out to you where I live there is no lock downs nobody wears a mask no infection

for over 5 months and the economy is thriving. Happy now?

[candide]

56 minutes ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

 

So if America infection is up 20% in the recent week with no economic shutdown, what does that make European countries that are up 100+ % in infections, and also locked down and destroyed what was left of their pitiful economies.  No need to list them, they know who they are.  I would call that a 'super-idiot' policy.  Take a note that the virus does not follow anyone's rules. ????

 

 

 

In case you didn't notice, may I remind you that the reason infections are growing in Europe? It's because before that, they halted the lockdown and allowed people to go to the beach, bars, restaurants, etc....

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4 hours ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

 

So if America infection is up 20% in the recent week with no economic shutdown, what does that make European countries that are up 100+ % in infections, and also locked down and destroyed what was left of their pitiful economies.  

Right. Europe's economies are destroyed.  How do you come up with such ridiculous ideas?

[rabas]

2 hours ago, placeholder said:

Right. Europe's economies are destroyed.  How do you come up with such ridiculous ideas?

 

Unprecedented damage. Read the IMF.

 

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/EU/Issues/2020/10/19/REO-EUR-1021

 

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is exacting a severe social and economic toll on Europe. By mid-October 2020, more than 240,000 people have lost their lives in Europe, while nearly 7 million people are estimated to have been infected with the virus...

 

Real GDP fell by about 40 percent in the second quarter of 2020 (annualized quarter-over-quarter), with deeper contraction in advanced Europe, ...

 

And with new infections nearing double that of the US, it will get worse.