Doctors say the US is in a 'free fall' with coronavirus (CNN)

[Mike 03]

CNN Health
Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 11:54 AM ET, Mon July 6, 2020

Full Headline: Doctors say the US is in a 'free fall' with coronavirus as 32 states struggle with higher rates of infection

While new Covid-19 infections keep soaring in most states, some hospitals are close to running out of beds.

But by the looks of packed holiday crowds this weekend, many Americans don't care -- threatening to infect others and set the economy back even further.

"We are in free fall," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital. "You see the footage of what happened this past weekend. And people are either naive to the influence of their actions, or they're simply resigned to ignore it."

This virus is notorious for how contagious it is -- and how easily people can infect others without symptoms.

"We know of the 50,000 cases this past day -- a single day of this (holiday) weekend," Walensky said. "If they're young people, it could be 500 people who die from that. If they're older people, it could be 7,500 people who die from that -- just from a single day of infection."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. I will say it again, people won't get it until the bodies are stacked on the curbs...

If it ain't happening to you or yours they don't care. The right sees all of us as a commodity to be used up. Got to keep the rich folks, rich.

[BadGimp]

3. I think you might be right on that

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[bdamomma]

4. wait until they see their

families members dying off. Sickening people don't care about others, all selfish and no one pays attention to the Drs. who continually tell people how people are dying from this. Ignorance/arrogance at its' highest.

[central scrutinizer]

2. Besides the naive and resigned

We have the aggressive anti-maskers who force their concept of freedumb on the rest of us.

[stopdiggin]

5. sobering.

reading the other day about how incredulous the rest of the world is at our willful ignorance.
everybody hang on tight.
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[SoonerPride]

6. The collpase of the many health care systems in coming.

Not everywhere. Not all at once. But regionally that is coming.