The United States again hits a daily record for cases, its sixth in 10 days.

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Officials across the United States reported more than 59,880 cases on Thursday, setting a single-day record for the sixth time in 10 days, according to a New York Times database.

The surge has been driven largely by states in the South and the West that were among the first to ease restrictions established during the virus’s initial wave in the spring.

At least six states set single-day case records on Thursday: Alabama, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Oregon and Texas.

The numbers were especially striking in Texas, which set a record for the fourth consecutive day with more than 10,900 cases. Nearly one in 10 of them were in Hidalgo County, which consists of over a thousand square miles of scrub and urban sprawl on the Mexico border.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Champp]

1. America is so DAMN tired of "winning" (Republican style)

[soothsayer]

2. I thought we hit a higher number

64k

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Pick your source: Worldometers, Johns-Hopkins, CDC, many more

Depends which batch gets recorded on which day at one of those. Depends if they have an 11 pm EDT boundary or 12 pm PDT and other factors.

[Chemisse]

4. I know right?

I thought the news outlets were all using the John Hopkins site, which seemed to be the one elevated as the best (but not my personal favorite).

But if they are using different sources on different days, etc, we get discrepancies like this.

On edit - The New York Times collects its own data, I believe, so is its own source.