International Covid-19 Breaking News v20: U.S. sees spike in cases after protest / increased testing

[PainIsLIfe]

Not sure why the other thread is still going at over 2000 posts.

Link to old thread:
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...9-u-s-coronavirus-deaths-top-100-000.4105374/


Edit: Chardog has rightly mentioned that testing has risen dramatically so total number of cases may not be the best indicator of what is happening:

Testing per month
March: 1M tests
April: 5.3M tests
May: 10.7M tests
June: 14.4M test

Daily death chart: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Historical testing data: https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily




7 states set record number of cases - story abc, pictures are from duckduckgo.

7 states have record high cases since Friday:
Here's how the news developed Sunday. All times Eastern.

10: 42 p.m.: Nashville issues mandatory face mask order
Officials in issued an order to enforce the mandatory wearing of masks or face coverings in Nashville and Davidson counties.
The new rule follows a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Tennessee.

7:13 p.m.: Pittsburgh bans serving of alcohol after 'alarming spikes'
Bars and restaurants in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania -- which includes the city of Pittsburgh -- will have to suspend the sale of onsite alcohol, officials said Sunday.

The county is seeing "alarming spikes" in positive cases of COVID-19, and bars in particular have been hotspots, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said at a news conference.

3:28 p.m.: CA governor orders bars closed in 7 counties, including LA
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered bars to close in seven counties on Sunday due to the "rising spread" of COVID-19.

2:30 p.m.: Arizona sets record for daily new COVID-19 cases
Arizona saw a record number of daily new COVID-19 cases, with 3,858 reported on Sunday.
Nearly half (36,307) of Arizona's total COVID-19 cases are among adults aged 20-44 year-olds.

11:20 a.m.: Florida records another 8,000-plus new cases
The Florida Department of Health announced an additional 8,577 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, 1,000 less new cases from the day prior.

Dade County in Miami reported 2,160 new cases, up from 1,362 the day before.

2:56 a.m.: San Antonio issues 'stay home' alert as 795 COVID-19 cases reported Saturday, a daily high
San Antonio officials urged residents to stay home as the city recorded its highest number of cases in a single day.

1:25 a.m.: 3 states had record high case numbers on Saturday
Florida, South Carolina and Georgia all hit record high numbers of cases on Saturday with Nevada more than doubling their highest daily total.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/coronavirus-updates-states-hit-record-high-number-cases/story?id=71497484

 

[bobgeese]

This was entirely predictable. I hope every death was worth the virtue signaling.

 

[Dirt Road Soldier]

It's just going to keep getting worse. Dense population centers are nothing more than giant petri dishes for a pandemic like this, especially when barely anyone follows the rules.

 

[Kandyland]

Imagine being so dumb you go out to protest in the thousands during a deadly pandemic while criticizing the 10 people protesting stay at home orders. Then when the George Floyd protests are over you go back to criticizing the SAH protests like nothing happened.

Oh gee, I wonder why some states saw a spike in COVID cases. It must've been the 5 people protesting because they couldn't work.

 

[Staph infection]

Who could have foreseen this?

 

[nac386]

Prior to the protests 19 different states were already seeing an increase in infections, and the protests compounded that situation. Large gatherings like protests and rallies are not a good idea, nor is refusing to wear a mask on public transit or other public locations.

Unfortunately the government is looking to reduce funds for testing, because Trump thinks real numbers make him look bad. Right in time for rally season.

 

[The_Renaissance]

This was always coming. We've escaped it in the UK due to much smaller, much less frequent protests so despite it being 3 weeks ago now, we haven't seen a major increase whatsoever in cases or deaths/hospitalisations. The States is fucked man, these people are still congregating shoulder to shoulder in their 10,000s on the regular to protest something that was dealt with weeks ago. Pick your fucking battles, people....

 

[Misfit23]

Protests + half assed lockdowns ... what could go wrong?...

 

[cincymma79]

Florida reopened early may. Like around may 4. Clearly the spike is from having four people in line at taco bell and not from thousands of people gathering in a way that the people saying it doesn't spread just said it did and then even cite other gatherings while saying this other much larger and much longer gathering isn't the main factor

 

[BIKES!]

I mean there are only 400M people in the country. obviously a couple of bad resisting arrest cases are indicative of a problem in the ether worthy of mass rioting and looting in the face of a pandemic. I mean... the protest...er rioters and looters are obviously smart people

 

[Handsome Bruce]

Most people with brains thought the protests would cause a spike and then the spike happened. Amazing!

It will be interesting to see what excuses and mental gymnastics the leftards, pundits and mainstream media will be resorting to in order to defend the looters and rioters. What is it with the left's hard on for criminals?

 

[Gilday]

This clearly shows one thing and one thing only.

COVID-19 is racist and needs to be cancelled immediately.

 

[Amerikuracana]

If the hospitals aren’t overwhelmed there’s nothing to see. It was always going to spread to half of everybody.

 

[GrandNewb]

But the MSM keeps saying that the recent spike in cases is NOT due to the protests that started a few weeks ago.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...sts-not-behind-surges-coronavirus/3226033001/



I knew it. It's those pesky right wing, Trump-loving fascists making up fake news. Everyone knows the coronavirus does not spread among left wing protestors.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/coronavirus-cases-protests-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html

"Research" says so.

 

[Mani]

Did that woman get her haircut?

That story was never followed up was it?

 

[Queen B]

Unless TS has an actual article or study, the title needs to be changed to US SEES SPIKE IN CASES AFTER RE-OPENING


NYC and DC had the most amount of protests and are having decreasing numbers

 

[Rational Poster]

Florida reopened early may. Like around may 4. Clearly the spike is from having four people in line at taco bell and not from thousands of people gathering in a way that the people saying it doesn't spread just said it did and then even cite other gatherings while saying this other much larger and much longer gathering isn't the main factor

Except you know, despite the governor of Florida deliberately suppressing data in regards to both infections and deaths in that state... that's exactly when Florida's cases started trending upward.

Weird.

 

[The Audience]

No evidence that vitamin D prevents coronavirus, say experts​

"No evidence exists to support taking vitamin D supplements to prevent Covid-19, UK public health experts have found.

On Monday, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said that, having examined five studies, it had not found evidence to support any benefit from vitamin D with respect to Covid-19.

“While there are health benefits associated with vitamin D, our rapid evidence summary did not identify sufficient evidence to support the use of vitamin D supplements for the treatment or prevention of Covid-19,” said Paul Chrisp, the director of the centre for guidelines at Nice. “We know that the research on this subject is ongoing, and Nice is continuing to monitor new published evidence.”

At the same time, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) reached similar conclusions, stating that the evidence did not support recommending vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections.

Nice said the five studies it had examined all had very low quality of evidence, noting that none had adjusted for confounding factors, such as body mass index, higher socioeconomic deprivation and poorer self-reported health.

The SACN said that one of the most widely supported studies to support the hypothesis that vitamin D reduces the risk of acute respiratory tract infections was one led by Prof Adrian Martineau in 2017. But Martineau, a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, has himself described the evidence on vitamin D as “mixed” and the SACN said randomised controlled trials published since 2017 had not supported its conclusions.

The committee said it would keep the topic “under urgent review” and consider updating its assessment if new evidence emerged from randomised controlled trials."

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[method115]

NYC and DC had the most amount of protests and are having decreasing numbers

Do you have the numbers for NYC and DC? Couldn't find any.

 

[cincymma79]

Except you know, despite the governor of Florida deliberately suppressing data in regards to both infections and deaths in that state... that's exactly when Florida's cases started trending upward.

Weird.

For fuck sake
Which one added more people the ones with tens of thousands of people for weeksoweeks on endtend other