Breaking - USA reached its highest number of one day Covid-19 cases in a day today

[malaise]

today - close to 36,900 - and the day has several hours to go

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/24/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total


Across the United States, more than 36,000 new infections were reported by state health departments on Wednesday — surpassing the previous single-day record of 34,203 set on April 25. Texas, Florida and California led the way, with all three states reporting more than 5,000 new cases apiece.

[guillaumeb]

1. USA, number 1.

[malaise]

2. Should send the Con a thank you card

This is criminal

[guillaumeb]

3. Who would read it to him?

In a sane world, he would never have been elected.

[malaise]

4. I maintain that he stole it

history will absolve me

[torius]

5. Commander Covid

will be having more indoor rallies, if one becomes a superspreading event he’ll have a great time gaslighting.

[malaise]

6. I like that

Nicely played

[torius]

29. Thanks!

[CountAllVotes]

7. Make America Great

Again ...

And by all means dump tRump!!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Worldometer has April 24th higher, but...

... there's still several hours left today,

2nd highest according to them... SO FAR.

I suspect that we'll keep breaking records in the coming days and weeks anyway.

[malaise]

9. WP says today passed April 25

Let's agree that it's horrific period

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Yeah, picking nits at this point.

They all seem to have slightly different numbers, but they're all pretty much equally catastrophic in the end.

[malaise]

15. And the Con's attempt to move on created these numbers

Thankfully people are now awake and he's going to pay for this one

[Ms. Toad]

18. Correct.

My guess is the WP compiled stats and didn't adjust prior day's totals when the actual dates were corrected. There have been two major corrections so far that corrected totals all the way back to February.

[Heartstrings]

11. Are we great yet? Nt

[Yavin4]

12. Is this the "winning" that Trump was talking about?

If so, he's right. I am sick and tired of it.

[marie999]

13. But, but that is not possible.

It's Summer. The days are getting hotter. Is it possible that trump lied?

[smirkymonkey]

14. This is really bad.

As a nation, we should be on a downward curve as a whole. This is all on Trump. What a royal fuck-up!

We can't afford to keep him around until November. This is unacceptable.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. We're gonna need a bigger a Task Force.

“Um... Do I believe in evolution? Ah, I, I, ah...”

[Ms. Toad]

17. The previous high was actually 39,072 on April 24.

Someone apparently didn't adjust their earlier stats after late-reported cases were assigned to the correct days.

So this is the 2nd highest. (May 1 - 36,090, and June 23 - 36,015 being the next twho highest)

[Quixote1818]

19. You beat me to it. I bet we hit 40,000 by Friday. nt

[Ms. Toad]

20. If the past is a predictor of the future - yes.

Friday has pretty much always been the day with the most new cases, and I don't see that much of anyone is doing anything that will impact that by this Friday.

[Quixote1818]

21. It's still going up. Now at just under 38,000 nt

[Ms. Toad]

24. I've beeen expecting today to be the #1 day since I looked at the 11:00AM total.

It will be close.

[Quixote1818]

27. Are they still saying the actual cases are aprox 10 times the confirmed or is it lower now with

more testing?

[Ms. Toad]

28. I haven't heard any new estimates recently. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

30. Now only 112 away from #1, with 40 minutes to go. n/t

[malaise]

22. Thanks

What a mess

[Ms. Toad]

25. Yup.

June now has 4 of the top 10 days for new cases (whether we move into the #1 slot, or just hang out at #2)

[soothsayer]

23. And of FL's total cases, 27% came in the last week!

[Voltaire2]

26. The states that did the right thing are now going to pay for the states

that have fucked this up entirely, and for the malfeasance at the top that gave political cover to state governments to chicken out and do nothing.

But while the human cost is unforgivable, the financial cost is what we do as a nation, working together for a better world for everyone.

[Quixote1818]

31. Just reached 39,000

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Buckeye_Democrat]

32. Beat me to it.

[Demovictory9]

34. yikes!!!!