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06-30-2020 08:18 PM - edited 06-30-2020 08:19 PM
This is the problem we are having as a country, our population about 340 million and the EU at about 440 million:
06-30-2020 08:24 PM
Which one word do I choose? Heartbreaking? Appalling? Tragic?
06-30-2020 08:27 PM
Horrifying.
06-30-2020 08:36 PM
Please don’t flame me but in my opinion this is the result of people in the US being defiant and rather than listen to the Drs and wear a mask and social distancing they will do what the he** they want. New cases are on the rise and we are being told a second more deadly wave may be coming. I pray for us all.
06-30-2020 08:41 PM - edited 06-30-2020 08:43 PM
Although not unexpected, this graphic certainly puts things into perspective. It was projected that as states eased restrictions, and less people complied with mask mandates, and social distancing guidelines, there would be an astronomical surge in new infections.🤔
The increased availability of testing also contributes to these numbers; more tests, more confirmed cases. I am concerned about these numbers, but more concerned about the number of people that despite the alarming statistics, adamantly refuse to comply.😐
~~~All we need is LOVE💖
06-30-2020 08:46 PM
06-30-2020 09:12 PM - edited 06-30-2020 09:25 PM
The road back will be even harder now than it was in March. The United States is experiencing multiple outbreaks from California to Florida that will seed more infections in the weeks and months ahead. The hope that summer’s warm weather would help, that the sacrifices made in March and April would be sufficient, that a miracle cure would arrive — all have been dashed. The United States faces a crisis unseen in recent generations, and if it deepens, the pain won’t be only in illness and death but also in education and economics.
It is time to return to first principles. We need a colossal effort, a Manhattan Project, to fight the virus, and we don’t have it. Experts have identified the best strategy: test, to find out who is sick; trace, to find out who may be sick; and isolate those who are suffering. Personal habits must accompany this: wearing face masks, hand washing, physical distancing and avoiding crowds in enclosed spaces.
The strategy worked in nations that pursued it with conviction, such as South Korea and Germany. But in the United States, testing began in chaos and still lacks what’s needed to suppress or even mitigate the virus, according to a useful analysis just published by the Harvard Global Health Institute and NPR. To reach a goal of mitigation, or keeping the ratio of positive tests below 10 percent, would require 1.2 million tests a day; the United States is currently performing about 570,000. The analysis found 32 states are not doing enough to achieve mitigation; 18 and the District are doing enough. To suppress the virus, and get the positive ratio below 3 percent, would require 4.3 million tests a day. Suppression might allow some return to normalcy. “That’s what we all want — to get our lives back. But right now we’re losing to the virus,” says Ashish Jha, who runs the Harvard institute. Contact tracing is also way behind what would be necessary.
[There is more but I'd better not copy and paste it.]
06-30-2020 09:13 PM
@BhvbumLooking at graphs for only one data point -- in this case, the number of infections -- gives a highly distorted view. What also matter are the hospitalization rate and the death rate, both of which are declining in the U.S., as the new infections are occurring largely among younger people who overall get milder cases of covid and recover from them much more quickly than people over 65. It's important to reduce the overall level of infection, but to focus only on that while ignoring the hospitalization and death rates gives a misleading picture of where we are and where we're headed.
06-30-2020 09:19 PM
06-30-2020 09:34 PM
The US now has more covd19 deaths than any other country!
(anyone doubting this or stating otherwise can google with this info all over!)
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