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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCOVID news today is pretty grim - numbers already very high for a Saturday
Not yet 5 PM eastern, already over 122K confirmed cases, over 1K deaths today from one website
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
over 130K confirmed cases, over 1.1K deaths from another website
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Looking at the country, it is becoming the inflamed red of the so called president that doesn't give a fuck about it all
https://covidactnow.org/?s=1324328
no states green, no states yellow, 20% of states orange.....red everywhere. ICU headroom used nearing 100 percent in 10 states.
Nice day for a big superspreader ignoramus rally in DC, I guess.
icwlmuscyia
(296 posts)With the holiday season coming up common sense often goes out the window.
I know there are "norms" but I am hoping Biden will make an address on Covid. By Jan. 20 it may be totally uncontrollable with thousands of health care pros dead.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)It's already happening in the midwest. American Carnage on steroids as Trump golfs.
Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)On the golf course.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)to be arrested.
People are dying needlessly.
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)captain queeg
(10,242 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...and Saturday isn't normally a low day. Generally speaking, Mondays and Tuesdays (meaning, the actual number of cases from the previous day, Sunday and Monday) are the lowest days of the week for new reported cases, probably due to slow reporting over the weekend, with the numbers higher through the Saturday report (Friday cases); sometimes the Sunday report is a bit higher, sometimes a bit lower.
Nonetheless, the numbers from recent Monday reports have not been comforting. The past few Mondays have been...
9/28: 33,891
10/5: 39,548
10/12: 46,614
10/19: 60,061
10/26: 63,589
11/2: 86,190
11/9: 122,910
Not a good trend.
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)generaly ~10% down.
On the site I use - many reports are same-day. So the early numbers include the prior day - but the later numbers to show up inlcudesame day numbers. LIkely why both Saturday and Monday are lower.
triron
(22,020 posts)Even restrictions for essental business. No social grouping outside home except houses of worship (25%).
Mask mandate outside the home period.
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)It's likely to be around 165,000 today. (Range: 149,000 - 176,280)
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)A little larger than average drop since Saturday.
liberal_mama
(1,495 posts)It's really getting bad now. Someone has to act fast or people will be dropping dead all over. A man I know went to the hospital a few days after he tested positive for covid and they gave him an inhaler and sent him home. The next day, his family found him dead in his house. He was 37 years old. He was a Trumper and thought covid was a hoax, so he didn't wear a mask and he went to bars 3x in the week before he was diagnosed. However, he did try to warn others that it was actually real in the few days before he died.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)153,294 today so far, but some states don't have data yet.
Illinois is the winner so far today with 197 deaths today.
1242 deaths for the US today so far.