COVID-19 Daily Cases On The Rise In Nearly Half Of U.S. States
Source: NPR
The number of new daily coronavirus infections in the U.S. continued to rise this past week, driven by upward trends in nearly half the states that have pushed total cases in the country past 7 million. At the same time, a recent study suggests the vast majority of Americans haven't been exposed, far below what's required to quell the virus's spread through "herd immunity."
Daily cases were largely on a downward trend through August and early September from highs in July, but are now going up again.
According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Tracker, the U.S. reported more than 55,000 new cases on Friday. In total, the U.S. has more than 7,074,000 infections with 204,000 dead as a result of COVID-19.
Overall, about two-dozen states and territories reported an upward trend in new infections, with some states setting and breaking records in days.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/26/917275615/covid-19-cases-on-the-rise-in-nearly-half-the-u-s
Even as cases start to tick upward despite a drop in testing in states such as Florida, you also have States accelerating the rate of reopening again and even prohibiting cities from imposing mask mandates.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Hair and nail salons just opened back up for indoor business after doing everingthing oudoors in parking lots for weeks.
All this while the number infected is the highest it's ever been, and Republicans refusing to wear masks.
It is a horrific disaster in the making.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)Of course, even in areas that are taking COVID seriously, you will have the federal government doing its best to undermine efforts to control the spread.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/u-s-attorney-general-threatens-sf-with-legal-action-over-covid-19-restrictions/2370197/
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is relieved the U.S. Attorneys Office is pressuring the city to allow places of worship to open.
The Department of Justice sent Mayor London Breed a letter that said current COVID-19 restrictions limiting places of worship to one person at a time infringe on religious freedom and violate First Amendment rights.
The letter said the restrictions must be changed or further action may be taken.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)DOJ is a sick joke now.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)wnylib
(21,420 posts)all brought a rise in cases.
Imagine what Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve will bring.
BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)This is not Chicken Pox and from all the researchers who have been studying it from inception, the antibodies (if the body manages to make enough and you even survive a large dose of the virus) are only around about 3 or so months before they start fading away.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)Herd immunity starts at somewhere in the 40% to 70% range.
Herd mentality starts as soon as you vote Republican.
BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)progree
(10,901 posts)Sept. 12 was the post-mid-summer-peak low point in U.S. daily new cases. It's been going up since then.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
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Daily tests, and positivity rates, U.S.
The solid blue line is the test positivity rate (has been trending down since a July peak, currently 4.9%), 7 day moving average
The tall light orange bars are daily tests -- unfortunately there's no 7 day moving average or such. Looks like it went down after the July peak but has been headed up since early September to a little above the previous peak of testing in late July.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/usa
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This shows tests per 1,000 people by state in last 2 weeks (and positivity rates), but unfortunately no U.S. overall, sigh.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/tracker/overview
paleotn
(17,911 posts)Just like clockwork.