Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in the U.S. Soar to More Than 75,000, Shattering the Record
(NYT)
As clashes over face-covering mandates and school reopening plans intensified throughout the United States, the country shattered its single-day record for new cases on Thursday — more than 75,000 with some numbers still to be announced, according to a New York Times database.
This was the 11th time in the past month that the record had been broken. The number has more than doubled since June 24, when the country registered 37,014 cases after a lull in the outbreak had kept the previous record, 36,738, standing for two months. As of Wednesday, the country’s seven-day average case number exceeded 63,000, up from about 22,200 a month before.
The previous record, 68,241 cases, was announced last Friday.
Thursday’s record included more than 5,000 cases in Bexar County, Texas, which contains San Antonio, where numbers spiked in part because of a backlog in test reporting.
Florida on Thursday broke its single-day death record for the second time this week, reporting 156 new fatalities. It was one of 10 states to reach a record for deaths in a single day this week, joining Idaho, Alabama, Arizona, Utah, Oregon, Texas, Hawaii, Montana and South Carolina.
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The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, on Thursday reiterated President Trump’s view that schools must open in the fall. “When he says open,” she said, “he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this.”
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...the outbreak in the United States has surged over the past month, after many states eased restrictions.
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The U.S. is now averaging some 63,000 new cases a day — twice as many as in April, when the nation reached what many officials initially hoped would be its peak.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S., noted in an interview Thursday on Facebook with its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, that after its initial peak, the nation never succeeded in driving the virus beneath a plateau of about 20,000 new cases a day.
“When you looked at what happened in the European countries, when they had their peak and they locked down, they locked down to the tune of about 90 to 95 percent of the country, truly locked down,” he said, adding that they succeeded in driving new infections down to a baseline of “literally handfuls of new cases — tens, twenties, thirties, not hundreds and thousands.”
“What I think we need to do, and my colleagues agree, is we really almost need to regroup, call a timeout — not necessarily lock down again, but say that we’ve got to do this in a more measured way,” Dr. Fauci said. “We’ve got to get our arms around this and we’ve got to get this controlled.”
[Dr Fauci stuck his dick in a ringer there and it is not for the first time. You can't use Europe as a blocwhich "truly locked down" as a bloc as exemplar, driving down new cases to "literally handfuls" and then say in the very next sentence the U.S. need "not necessarily lock down again" and mouth meaningless vaporings like "We've got to get our arms around this." Dr. Fauci should have resigned the moment Trump stopped listening to him and calling him, about June 1 as I recall. Fauci has been listening to Trump, rather than vice versa, and tailoring to his conscience's satisfaction his own beliefs and statements to those of an Idiot. He is enabling Donald Trump, a mass manslaughterer at the least, if not a mass murderer, to continue with his killing--and to quote that very phrase of Dr Fauci and twist it into justification for reopening schools and the country in general. It is now far too late in the day for Fauci to save his reputation, for which he cares not. He cares only to help the American people get through this health epidemic and justifies his continuing to stay thus. He should care, but doesn't or doesn't see, that staying on after Trump stopped having contact with him was doing Trump's work in the killing fields alongside him. Fauci is now co-owner with Trump of all sickenings and Deaths since then.]