Across the county the number of case since the beginning HAVE dropped…
New York accounted for more then 50% of them once…
No more…
As more state’s begin to reopen…
Some places have little to no cases…
Some have spikes upward…
The concept that everything would be even across the country just isn’t true…
The NY Times has been very bullish on its virus coverage and has taken it’s lumps in the last several days due to its report on the Trump admin upward revision of the overall cases numbers…
The New York Times has gone out of its way to support it’s worst case scenario story…..
While the worst-hit parts of the United States have seen new infections recede and hospitalizations drop after strict social-distancing measures were put in place, the country is still in the firm grip of a pandemic.
For every indication of improvement in controlling the virus, new outbreaks have emerged elsewhere, providing a steady, unrelenting march of deaths and infections.
As states continue to lift restrictions, impatient Americans are freely returning to shopping, lingering in restaurants and gathering in parks. New flare-ups and super-spreader events are expected to be close behind.
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While President Trump pressed states to reopen their economies, his administration was privately projecting a steady rise in coronavirus infections and deaths over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1 — nearly double the current level.
The more dire assessments reflect the decisions of governors across the country to ease social-distancing measures even as the number of new cases holds steady and, in some cases, is even rising.
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas have all allowed some businesses to reopen despite seeing increasing cases, according to a New York Times database.
The projections, based on data collected by various agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and laid out in an internal document obtained Monday by The New York Times, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of May, up from about 30,000 cases now. There are currently about 1,750 deaths per day, the data show.
That was not the only forecast of more carnage. Another model,closely watched by White House officials, raised its fatality projections on Monday to more than 134,000 American deaths by early August from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The model, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, more than doubled its previous projection of about 60,000 total deaths, an increase that it said partly reflects “changes in mobility and social-distancing policies.”
“There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said….
Yes they are rising .
Unsurprising given the reopenings speading across the country.
The so-called “guidelines” issued by the Trump Administration have rapidly been disregarded for the most part while Trump himself makes contradictory noises,alternately opposing those who flout the guidelines yet supporting the reopenings.
And even though polls still show the majority of Americans more supportive of continuing the lockdowns,many seem to be taking a more devil may care attitude and slowly yet surely trying to return to more normal behavior.
Yes Jack…
Up here cops are handing out tickets for more and more people having parties…
Beaches and parks have a crowds with the warmer weather…
But NY numbers keep dropping…
Not as fast as they went up though…
Nursing home have become the hot spots with daily numbers of infections and newly found fatalities…
BTW?
There ARE governor’s that ARE using the phased guidelines that the CDC issued…
NY is….
Yes they are rising and it’s a crime that people want to cheerlead the end of the quarantine. While NY may be flattening, the curve goes up in rural America.
Yup Keith….
NY buckled down hard early…
It has put the state ahead of the curve…
Newsom is in a hard place, eh?
Scott ur post coming shortly…
I don’t even know what that actually means James.
All responsible Governors are in a tough place. You will notice the largest State lags behind other states in raw infection numbers. The Governor demands detailed plans for social distancing. Even on the beaches people need to keep moving. We took decisive action and so far it’s paying off.
Opening up too soon will kill thousands more and cheerleading for an early opening is irresponsible.
The same applies for NY
I read stories about governors backing away from face mask usage
Not around my way in NY…
People ARE wearing them here…
I agree with ur ‘all responsible’ use of words…
Just to review?
Newsom was hard in the case two weeks ago
But now has moved to open some things up?
And just about EVERY state HAS begun relaxing restrictions …Jack ‘s point on Fauci’s admitting we will have to accept some virus fatalities as a norm IS correct I’m afraid…
Dr. Fauci as he often does has cut to the chase.
Last night in an interview with recovered coronavirus victim Chris Cuomo ,when asked about what many regard as premature reopenings said it all comes down to a simple question,
“How much death and how much suffering are you willing to accept?”
Increasingly, the answer seems to be,especially from Trump and his supporters,ie, Republicans , “we are willing to accept thousands of more deaths and likely hundreds of thousands more people suffering to get back to eating in restaurants and shopping in stores and doing whatever the Hell else we want !”
And that’s pretty much where we are at!
No surprise Jack…
It’s always been the case…