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American Virus Stats
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New vocation then!
Not if you want a company to sort it when it goes wrong in 12 months
rew
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Is anyone else watching the figures in the USA with a feeling of impending doom?
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I know and they still seem to be relaxing restrictions too.
Gert Meyers
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What to expect when the 'man' in charge thought Covid was going to be 'a little flue'?
Americans are also notoriously hard to tell what to do, on account of that 'exceptional rugged individualism'?
Americans are also notoriously hard to tell what to do, on account of that 'exceptional rugged individualism'?
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Florida keeps breaking records it never wanted to break.
On Sunday, the state reported more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering its previous record of 11,336 set on Thursday.
Wow. Florida just reported 15,000 new cases today, a record. Testing is way up. pic.twitter.com/Kt45e6hfCW
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) July 12, 2020
If Florida were a country, only the United States, Brazil, and India would have recorded more new infections over that same span, Reuters reports. Per Reuters, no European country recorded a daily number that high during the height of the pandemic there, while Florida also broke New York state's previous record of 12,847 new cases on April 10 when it was the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.
One slight silver lining is that the positivity rate dropped slightly in Florida thanks to an increase in testing even though the number of positive results increased.
On Sunday, the state reported more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering its previous record of 11,336 set on Thursday.
Wow. Florida just reported 15,000 new cases today, a record. Testing is way up. pic.twitter.com/Kt45e6hfCW
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) July 12, 2020
If Florida were a country, only the United States, Brazil, and India would have recorded more new infections over that same span, Reuters reports. Per Reuters, no European country recorded a daily number that high during the height of the pandemic there, while Florida also broke New York state's previous record of 12,847 new cases on April 10 when it was the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.
One slight silver lining is that the positivity rate dropped slightly in Florida thanks to an increase in testing even though the number of positive results increased.
Vapaneezer Scrooge
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I'm finding the US figures a touch confusing, we have all seen the dangerous gatherings over the past couple of months so it's no surprise the cases have been rising but the fatality rate seems to be much lower than you would have expected after the early New York numbers, yes they are sadly high but either the numbers are being massaged (November election) or there's some other factors, which could be:
- We now understand how to treat early cases better (drugs and not too hasty ventilation).
- Could the virus be changing to a less aggressive strain?
- Trump is just awesome and fucking nailed it.
- Some Americans have a unique dumb gene which the virus doesn't want to attack.
- Or as Trump says, more testing = more cases highlighting asymptomatic infections.
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