*Updated. 281,121 280,634 total Deaths since Feb 6. Hazardous to do this: Last night at 7:52 p.m. there had been 278,563 total Deaths. By six-something tonight, the original time of this post, there had been over 2,000 new Deaths. Now, at 9:00 p.m. there are almost 500 more. The daily record is 2,879. We're right there. Is Trump going to set a new record Killed? He needs ~300 more. I have never been able to estimate this correctly. So with that lack of confidence, borne of Johns Hopkins changing their numbers occasionally, I say "no": when today's numbers are reported out about 1:00 a.m. Dec. 6, Trump will not have reached 2,879 on Dec.5 but he will be damned close.
It is a national emergency lights and sirens but no lights are strobing and no sirens blaring and we wouldn't notice them if they were. Trump doesn't care and he has made us not care. It's a different country. There is no parallel in American history for this insouciance, because that caring, empathetic country no longer exists. We have the mark of death upon us and we treat it like a new tattoo, harmless.
2,607 new Deaths reported out Dec. 4. Which would have been a new record except for Dec. 3 and 2.
14-day changes (NYT)
+9% Cases
+28% Hospitalizations
+42% Deaths
7-day averages
Since the end of the Thanksgiving (reporting) holiday there have been near vertical (exponential) rises in Cases,
And Deaths.
Trump, how was Georgia?