Arizona, Texas, Florida again report record-high COVID-19 cases

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Arizona, Texas and Florida are all reporting record-high single-day increases in COVID-19 cases, surpassing previous records set just a few days ago.

The three states all reported their highest new case numbers yet on Thursday and Friday, worrying public health experts that the outbreaks there are growing out of control.

"These are on the cusp of getting out of control," former Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said Thursday on CNBC. "I think these states still have a week or two to take actions to try to get these under control."

Gottlieb described the rising cases in all three states as "outbreaks."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arizona-texas-florida-again-report-record-high-covid-19-cases/ar-BB15ISdS?li=BBnb7Kz

[Voltaire2]

1. We are watching another level of disaster unfold.

[Igel]

2. Houston's overachieving.

Worse in the city than in the parts of the counties adjacent to Houston (Houston's mostly in Harris County).

Harris County "chair" issued a face-masks requirement: businesses (etc.) have to enforce the face-mask requirement as of Monday or be subject to a $1000 fine (per instance, I think I read). Except she's not going to enforce the fine; if she did, I suspect there'd be a horrible skew because she also doesn't like fines and penalties or bails for the underprivileged.

Next in the case rankings are Dallas/FTW and then San Antonio.

Down near the border's coming up in the rankings.

Austin hasn't reported yet, or the site I'm looking at (1.3) hasn't updated.

Remember: People keep saying that Trump country's being affected. Houston. Dallas. Ft. Worth. San Antonio. Austin. And the area near the border down around Brownsville.

I'll wait to see how the disaster unfolds. The Houston mayor says a lot of the caseload increase are because of a backlog from the state testing facilities; make of that what you want (but please don't call him a "Republican" unless you've done some reading). Deaths are up a bit--whether it's a large increase or not depends on whether you like percentages based on relatively small numbers or just looking at the numbers. Large-ish percentage, but it amounts to an average of 10-20/day. Surely not to be sneezed at, those were people; at the same time, 30-40 dead in something like this isn't a huge disaster. (Yes, I've recalibrated my settings because some things are just big and require recalibration, otherwise you can't distinguish between 50 and 500.)