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marmar

(77,073 posts)
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 09:40 AM Jul 2020

Miami is the new Wuhan


(CNN) With more than 2,000 patients hospitalized and hundreds in ICUs, "Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic," one infectious disease expert said, comparing the South Florida metropolitan area to the city where the pandemic originated.

"What we were seeing in Wuhan -- six months ago, five months ago -- now we are there," Lilian Abbo, with the Jackson Health System said during a news conference hosted Monday by the Miami-Dade County mayor.

The Chinese city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, went into a 76-day lockdown in late January after a deadly outbreak infected and killed thousands. The first known cases of the virus were first detected in the city in December and by mid-April officials reported more than 50,000 infections. Miami-Dade County has recorded more than 64,000 infections so far, according to state data. ................(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html?utm_content=2020-07-14T11%3A03%3A04&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2Op_fzXXJG-jSoSHXpAuJ_N_sv6oydE9K3ocCC-gqDgOU4qiObCQv9Cps





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Miami is the new Wuhan (Original Post) marmar Jul 2020 OP
No exaggeration. It really is bad down here. FM123 Jul 2020 #1
While so many of us sacrificed in quarantine, many of our governments did NOTHING greenjar_01 Jul 2020 #2
 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
2. While so many of us sacrificed in quarantine, many of our governments did NOTHING
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 09:47 AM
Jul 2020

No plans for schools. No plans for re-opening effectively. Just waiting on the wink of the word to throw everyone into a COVID beach party.

What a fucking disaster.

DiSantis needs to resign. He's a failure and a disgrace. Trump and the entire Trump Movement has caused this to spiral out of control. Remember that Pence is the nominal leader of a coronavirus task force. A Task Force! What a failure of world historical importance. Complete and utter incompetence as far as the eye can see.

Catastrophe.

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