The Moment the “mainstream” media and other centrist Dems stop pretending the GOP are legitimate in their rhetoric, is the moment something of substance actually happens. they play the GOP’s game and it’s an endless cycle of different bull shit.
It was at 900 at 3pm when you posted, now it's at 1326 and the day cuts off in 4 hours. I think we'll have our first sub 2,000 Tuesday in a long time. It's bad to use Sunday numbers vs the entire week, but using Sunday vs Sunday's isn't terrible. For the most part they have been trending down, but we've still gotten big Tuesdays, and for the most part fallen off the rest of the week vs staying high. I think this might be a bit of a false positive though in terms of the nation. NY/NJ are recovering, but the rest of the nation is getting worse at a smaller scale
I wasn’t suggesting she would. I only meant to point out that I think she was so excited about Rand’s diatribe that she hit send before Fauci could respond.
we’ll see what happens i’m not very optimistic for obvious reasons. it jumped about 400 in less than an hour, and states aren’t close to being done reporting mass hasn’t reported anything yet
but wasn't that 400 from NJ/NY that you indicated hadn't reported yet? I think we'll have our lowest Tuesday in a while. Probably since 4/7. I don't think that indicates we're on a down slope, just the Northeast is healing
Illinois reported, not a great number but down from last Tuesday. Best news is we did 29,000 tests today, the previous record was 20,000.
Shouldn’t we be more concerned that NY deaths are trending way down and we’re only seeing a very small decrease in nationwide deaths?
I mean if that’s what I’ve been expecting to happen am I supposed to show more concern today than I have been?
Was just informed we will telework for at least the next 30 days. Kind of shocking considering I work for the federal government
not much is getting better, and now some states are close to completely reopening, including two of the biggest in the us in texas and florida i’d say that’s why imo
Those states numbers don't make any sense to me, especially Texas which has a ridiculously low amount of deaths.
underreporting/not enough testing the government is trying to cut all testing from dallas by may 30th
i cant imagine that any of the immigrant deaths are being reported in the texas number, and i know they’re probably being hit the hardest because of all the meat packing plants
Yes lol. And Florida. Etc. the GOP is literally telling you that is their strategy. When we look back a few years from now, avg excess deaths will be substantially higher than the actual “covid death toll”.
pretty naive to think they’re not trying to sweep a bunch under the rug when you look at death totals in red state in comparison to the northeast and west coast
3 months? I’m all for stricter requirements but I don’t see a reason why you need to go 3 months out at this point. I feel like those type of drastic moves the opposite way will create a situation where citizen compliance lessens which defeats the purpose.
We also reported over 4k new cases, our highest daily new case load yet. Prev high was just over 3.1k.
Michigan seems to be on the backside of its curve and continues a strong stay at home policy despite the militia protests. I'm vaguely hopeful that reopening will be measured and careful. The Stay Home, Stay Safe measures did a great job of limiting the major damage to metro Detroit. I'm glad we seem to be getting lower weekly numbers in the US, but scared they're fools gold with early hotspots under control and that a lot of places are reopening 2-3 weeks too soon. It is such a waste to go through 6-8 weeks of pain just to waste it by reopening 2 weeks too soon. If states like Ohio, Utah, and Michigan want to move ahead in their phases it makes sense. For Georgia and Texas to do it is beyond silly.
Right, more tests are going to yield more positives. Still need a lot more testing as the positive% for the northeast region is over 21%. That needs to come way down.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/pfi...housands-of-people-by-september-ceo-says.html Pfizer CEO and Chairman Albert Bourla said Tuesday that the company plans to expand human trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine to thousands of test patients by September. The U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant, which is working alongside German drugmaker BioNTech, injected doses of its potential vaccine, BNT162, into the first human participants in the U.S. last week. The company said it hopes to test up to 360 people in the clinical trial. Pfizer is currently testing four different vaccine variations, Bourla said during CNBC’s Healthy Returns Virtual Summit.
Fauci praises South Carolina’s coronavirus response as one he would ‘almost want to clone’ Spoiler Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert who has become a key figure in the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, praised South Carolina for its handling of the virus as it prepares to further relax its restrictions next week. “You have put things in place that I think would optimize your capability of reopening,” Fauci said Tuesday during a Senate health committee meeting. He characterized South Carolina’s response as something he would “almost want to clone.” The laudatory comment came after U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., posed a question nearly three hours into a hearing before the Republican-led Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The panel was titled “COVID-19: Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School.” Scott’s question to Fauci began as a monologue in which Scott summarized efforts made in the Palmetto State thus far to address the novel coronavirus, where state health officials on Monday confirmed a total of 7,792 cases and 346 fatalities. “Our hospital capacity is actually better now than it was when the pandemic started,” Scott claimed. While the coronavirus pandemic has caused the number of patients in hospitals to decline, reports show it has also pushed many health systems in South Carolina to the financial brink. Scott said the state did not set out with the goal of preventing every fatality from the virus. “That would be unrealistic. It is impossible,” Scott said. Scott added the state did not set out to implement quarantine directives meant to last until there was a vaccine in place. “That would take too long,” he said. Scott highlighted recent efforts by the state to obtain more contact tracers, who are individuals tasked with determining the spread of the virus. He emphasized the state plans to test 100 percent of nursing homes and staff members that take care of nursing home residents by the end of this month. “While I respect the need for caution, we are too often presented with a false dichotomy of either saving our economy or saving lives,” Scott said. Then, he asked Fauci his question: “What else would you suggest that we could do to protect our most vulnerable populations?” Fauci offered no objections to the rosy picture Scott described, even though experts have warned South Carolina must dramatically ramp up its efforts to detect new cases of COVID-19 and stop its spread. “You gave a really very eloquent description of what I think would be a model way to approach this,” Fauci said. Fauci said South Carolina appears ready to “progress carefully” with its reopening plans, but he still urged caution. The state needs to keep its most vulnerable populations in mind as it begins relaxing its restrictions, he said, particularly the elderly, individuals with underlying conditions and minority groups. “Protect them right up until the very end of the relaxation of your mitigation,” Fauci said. The comments were a contrast to the sharp warning Fauci issued at the beginning of the hearing, when he said opening too soon would cause “some suffering and death that could be avoided, but could even set you back on the road to try to get economic recovery.” Fauci, a member of the coronavirus task force charged with shaping the response to COVID-19, testified via video conference after self-quarantining as a White House staffer tested positive for the virus.