COVID news today is pretty grim - numbers already very high for a Saturday

[NRaleighLiberal]

Not yet 5 PM eastern, already over 122K confirmed cases, over 1K deaths today from one website

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

over 130K confirmed cases, over 1.1K deaths from another website

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

Looking at the country, it is becoming the inflamed red of the so called president that doesn't give a fuck about it all

https://covidactnow.org/?s=1324328

no states green, no states yellow, 20% of states orange.....red everywhere. ICU headroom used nearing 100 percent in 10 states.


Nice day for a big superspreader ignoramus rally in DC, I guess.

[icwlmuscyia]

1. soon it will be 250,000 a day

With the holiday season coming up common sense often goes out the window.

I know there are "norms" but I am hoping Biden will make an address on Covid. By Jan. 20 it may be totally uncontrollable with thousands of health care pros dead.

[SunSeeker]

2. By Christmas it will be a horror show, with bodies piling up in trailers all across the US.

It's already happening in the midwest. American Carnage on steroids as Trump golfs.

[Ohiogal]

3. And guess where Dear Leader is today.

On the golf course.

[bdamomma]

10. He needs

to be arrested.

People are dying needlessly.

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

[SheltieLover]

4. K&R!

[captain queeg]

5. I personally think Florida is quite possibly in the million club. I don't trust their statistics

[dewsgirl]

12. Floridian here, totally agree with you.

[ancianita]

15. Ditto.

[Ace Rothstein]

6. It is so widespread at this point that the numbers will continue to spiral out of control.

[regnaD kciN]

7. I've been tracking the CDC numbers since the start...

...and Saturday isn't normally a low day. Generally speaking, Mondays and Tuesdays (meaning, the actual number of cases from the previous day, Sunday and Monday) are the lowest days of the week for new reported cases, probably due to slow reporting over the weekend, with the numbers higher through the Saturday report (Friday cases); sometimes the Sunday report is a bit higher, sometimes a bit lower.

Nonetheless, the numbers from recent Monday reports have not been comforting. The past few Mondays have been...

9/28: 33,891
10/5: 39,548
10/12: 46,614
10/19: 60,061
10/26: 63,589
11/2: 86,190
11/9: 122,910

Not a good trend.

[Ms. Toad]

11. Saturdays (recently) have been down from Fridays

generaly ~10% down.

On the site I use - many reports are same-day. So the early numbers include the prior day - but the later numbers to show up inlcudesame day numbers. LIkely why both Saturday and Monday are lower.

[triron]

8. NM has implemented a 'stay at home' mandate. All indoor facities closed except essential business.

Even restrictions for essental business. No social grouping outside home except houses of worship (25%).
Mask mandate outside the home period.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Based on the last 7 weeks Sat/Fri ratio -

It's likely to be around 165,000 today. (Range: 149,000 - 176,280)

[Ms. Toad]

16. Update: Actual total today - 157,081

A little larger than average drop since Saturday.

[liberal_mama]

13. Worldometers is up to 153,000 new cases and 1242 dead as of 6:40 pm :(

It's really getting bad now. Someone has to act fast or people will be dropping dead all over. A man I know went to the hospital a few days after he tested positive for covid and they gave him an inhaler and sent him home. The next day, his family found him dead in his house. He was 37 years old. He was a Trumper and thought covid was a hoax, so he didn't wear a mask and he went to bars 3x in the week before he was diagnosed. However, he did try to warn others that it was actually real in the few days before he died.

[Klaralven]

14. 251,238 total deaths in the US

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

153,294 today so far, but some states don't have data yet.

Illinois is the winner so far today with 197 deaths today.

1242 deaths for the US today so far.