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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 10:03 PM Jul 2020

Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in the U.S. Soar to More Than 74,000, Shattering the Record

Source: New York Times

As clashes over face-covering mandates and school reopening plans intensified throughout the United States, the country shattered its single-day record for new cases on Thursday — more than 74,000 with some numbers still to be announced, according to a New York Times database.

The previous record, 68,241 cases, was announced last Friday.

That figure included more than 5,000 cases in Bexar County, Texas, which contains San Antonio, where numbers spiked in part because of a backlog in test reporting.

This was the 11th time in the past month that the record had been broken, and as of Wednesday the country’s seven-day average case number exceeded 63,000, up from about 22,200 a month before.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/coronavirus-updates.html

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Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases in the U.S. Soar to More Than 74,000, Shattering the Record (Original Post) milestogo Jul 2020 OP
Worldometers is almost at the same number...73,388. BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #1
I'm from California, and I'm disappointed even in California DSandra Jul 2020 #2
Fauci: COVID-19 cases could swell to 100,000 a day if U.S. doesn't control virus BumRushDaShow Jul 2020 #3

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. Worldometers is almost at the same number...73,388.
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 11:15 PM
Jul 2020

That may be due to Texas reporting close to 5,000 unreported cases.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

100,000 a day by when? Any educated guesses besides Dr Fauci?

DSandra

(999 posts)
2. I'm from California, and I'm disappointed even in California
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 11:32 PM
Jul 2020

Outside of the lower San Francisco Bay Area, indoor dining was allowed!? Movie theaters?

I remember being in the Sacramento area and seeing few people wearing masks (before the statewide mask order.) Even in the Bay Area, Ive seen groups of people who were likely friends or acquaintances getting together to eat in outdoor dining, as well as other groups of people (outside) that didn't have masks on. Even, in one case, there were a lot of people eating outdoors in a somewhat narrow downtown street in Santa Clara county (downtown streets have been closed to facilitate outdoor dining), and I only had pity for the waiters/waitresses that worked there. Even if the tables were socially distanced, I felt like that's way too many aerosols from people eating and talking to be comfortably around.

BumRushDaShow

(127,276 posts)
3. Fauci: COVID-19 cases could swell to 100,000 a day if U.S. doesn't control virus
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 06:25 AM
Jul 2020

He said that on June 30, 2020.

Fauci: COVID-19 cases could swell to 100,000 a day if U.S. doesn't control virus

June 30, 2020, 1:42 PM EDT / Updated June 30, 2020, 3:26 PM EDT
By Erika Edwards

Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation's leading health officials, suggested Tuesday the number of COVID-19 cases diagnosed each day could rise dramatically unless the nation can control the spread of the coronavirus.

"I'm very concerned about what's going on right now, particularly in the four states that are accounting for about 50 percent of the new infections," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Those states — Arizona, California, Florida and Texas — are experiencing surges in COVID-19 cases. And at least 12 states are reporting increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

"We are now having [40,000+] new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," Fauci said. "Clearly we are not in total control." He declined to make a prediction on the number of COVID-19-related deaths the U.S. could experience. More than 126,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. "I'm very concerned, because it could get very bad," he said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fauci-covid-19-cases-could-swell-100-000-day-if-n1232526


You could throw Georgia in there too, doing 2000 - 3000/day over the past month with a dumbass suing to stop local restrictions and mask-wearing.

Back of the envelope (if this goes unabated), suggests it has doubled in 3 weeks. So it may get to 100,000/day by the first week of August.
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