Actually?
Virus and deaths from it have also dropped since a peak in July….
Reading the media reports is a challenge….
While the straight numbers listed ARE decreasing …
Reporters often write about the cumulative numbers of cases and deaths vs the daily numbers….
Then?
There are also the reality that state often manipulate their numbers reported…..
With all off this though?
The reported numbers have dropped in a good many states as mask wearing increases and re-shutdowns occur along with more social distancing emphases comes back…
Experimental virus vaccines are also being tested in some states by two healthcare companies also…
At least 148 new coronavirus deaths and 6,236 new cases were reported in Florida on Aug. 13. Over the past week, there have been an average of 6,678 cases per day, a decrease of 35 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
As of Friday morning, there have been at least 557,100 cases and 8,912 deaths in Florida since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a New York Times database….
| United States › | On Aug. 13 | 14-day change |
Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| New cases | 53,956 | -18% |
Down
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| New deaths | 1,219 | -7% |
Down
|
U.S. hot spots ›
The virus continues to kill in New York, where at least 423,000 cases have been reported and at least 29,000 have died. But the pace has slowed considerably from the peak weeks in spring when more than 1,000 died on some days. On July 12, New York City went 24 hours without a covid-19 death for the first time since March.
The new epicenters are in the Sun Belt, particularly south Florida. Alarmed by the astounding increases and stresses on their healthcare systems, governors in several states have begun to pause reopening plans and in some cases, reimpose restrictions, such as closing bars and restaurants.
Meanwhile, smaller outbreaks continue to arise in prisons, factories and other workplaces, on college campuses as athletes showed up for summer workouts, and in schools after students returned from summer break.
In the absence of a federal plan to control the virus, some health officials, governors, mayors and corporations have championed the need for wearing masks in hopes of squelching rampant transmission. By mid-July, masks were required not just in hard-hit urban areas but in states such as Oregon and Alabama and in national retail chain Walmart….
The WashPost…
Oklahoma City has seen a dramatic drop in cases ever since the city enacted a mask ordinance on July 17, said Mayor David Holt. “Just like clockwork, about a week ago, we began to see the decline in the cases and the hospitalizations,” Holt, a Republican, told KFOR. “Over the course of this last week, we’ve seen cases drop about a third here in Oklahoma City, and we have seen hospitalizations drop about 20 percent.” (Antonia Farzan)
The White House’s coronavirus task force warned that Georgia continues to see “widespread and expanding community viral spread” and said the state’s current regulations aren’t enough to curtail the virus. The group “strongly recommends” that Georgia adopt a statewide mask mandate, but Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has continued to vehemently refused to impose one. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Delta Air Lines said more than 130 people have been put on its “no-fly” list for refusing to wear masks. “Fortunately, that’s a tiny percentage of our travelers, but we do take it seriously,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a Medium post.
Experts recommend washing cloth masks regularly. “The widely recommended method, which has also been promoted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is simple: Throw the dirty mask in with your regular laundry,” Allyson Chiu reports. “Cloth coverings can also be properly cleaned through hand-washing. … Make sure clean masks are stored in places where they cannot potentially be exposed to contaminants, or spread any contaminants already on them. For example, masks should probably not be hung on the rearview mirror of a car.”
The CDC issued new guidance saying that masks with valves or vents do not prevent the transmission of the virus. (Reis Thebault and Angela Fritz)
Source…
I labelled Kemp a POS several months ago.
Just to make it clear, he is still a POS.
According to an NPR/Marist Poll….
51% of Republican men believe the coronavirus has been “blown out of proportion.”
And we wonder why Republicans buy into Trumps silliness and conspiracy theories?
The irony of course is that an even larger percentage of Republicans were saying that in March.
Move along, folks, move along. Nothing to see here.
Pay no attention to the killer hiding in plain sight in front of the green curtain.
It’s all a socialist-communist-antifa panic spread by the lamestream media to Stop American Greatness.