Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Hits Another Record for New Cases, Passing 59,460
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A line of cars at a coronavirus test site in Wimauma, Fla., on Thursday. The state recorded its highest death total for a single day.Credit...Zack Wittman for The New York Times
More than 59,460 new cases were announced across the United States on Thursday, setting a single-day record for the sixth time in 10 days.
At least six states set single-day case records on Thursday: Alabama, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Oregon and Texas. The numbers were especially striking in Texas, which set a record for the fourth consecutive day with more than 10,900 cases.
Florida has seen its average new daily cases increase more than tenfold since it began reopening in early May. Cases in Arizona have jumped by 858 percent since beginning to reopen May 8. Cases in Texas have risen by 680 percent since the state began to reopen May 1.
The surge has been driven largely by states in the South and the West that were among the first to ease restrictions established during the virus’s initial wave in the spring. Epidemiologists had warned that reopening could lead to waves of new infections if it was done before the virus was contained
As cases continue to rise, hospitals across the South and the West have been flooded, forcing them to cancel elective surgeries and discharge some Covid-19 patients early to make beds available.
In Florida, more than 40 intensive-care units in 21 counties have hit capacity. In Mississippi, five of the state’s largest hospitals have already run out of I.C.U. beds for critical patients.
Health officials are concerned about the current surge in part because it is larger than the one that hit the United States in the spring
And at least two states recorded their highest death totals for a single day: Florida, with 120, and Tennessee, with 22.
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More than 59,460 new cases were announced across the United States on Thursday, setting a single-day record for the sixth time in 10 days.
Yes-- that's almost 60,000 new cases in a single day!
Florida has seen its average new daily cases increase more than tenfold since it began reopening in early May. Cases in Arizona have jumped by 858 percent since beginning to reopen May 8. Cases in Texas have risen by 680 percent since the state began to reopen May 1.
The surge has been driven largely by states in the South and the West that were among the first to ease restrictions established during the virus’s initial wave in the spring.
Epidemiologists had warned that reopening could lead to waves of new infections if it was done before the virus was contained
As cases continue to rise, hospitals across the South and the West have been flooded, forcing them to cancel elective surgeries and discharge some Covid-19 patients early to make beds available.
In Florida, more than 40 intensive-care units in 21 counties have hit capacity. In Mississippi, five of the state’s largest hospitals have already run out of I.C.U. beds for critical patients.
It's almost like the leaders of those states did not pay any attention to what was going on March - June.
Totally in a fog!
And probably also the fact that many Republicans were terrified of opposing Trump!
A bad tweet is worse than hundreds of deaths???
Yes!
(Well, at least of you are Donald Trump, or one of his sycophants!
Here in Florida, the number of cases and death are setting records. The positivity rate is over 18% and in Miami-Dade it's 35%..
Now, DeSantis said the school WILL OPEN in August, no plan at all they'll just open.
The is a CS beyond anyone's imagination.
Jacksonville, where the RNC convention is to be held in August, is recording over 600 new cases per day, but let's hold that convention because is so frickin important../s
Lampe MO. a small town in SW Missouri, population 2000 which we moved from a year and a half ago just reported 82 cases at a summer camp there.
Yeah it's really under control if you head is so far up your ass that it cuts off the oxygen supply.
Should read, 33.5% not 35%.
Now, DeSantis said the school WILL OPEN in August, no plan at all they'll just open.
If there was any doubt previously that he was a total mucking foron-- well now, all doubt about that has been erased!
Yesterday over 11,000 new cases and 93 dead. ICU are at capacity in many cities.
And Jacksonville the site for the RNC convention in August had 744 new cases yesterday.
Yup, it's gonna disappear just like that, poof it's gone. /s
Good afternoon Kavika
One thing that the left is not taking into consideration is the vast majority of these people would probably never had known they had COVID, but by being tested, it uncovered what they had. 99 percent of these people will recover quickly, within a coupe of weeks. Most of those that contracted COVID in the beginning of the uptick have now probably recovered and are continuing with their lives.
The media wants us to believe that these numbers of total cases are how many people are sick RIGHT NOW. It is actually the opposite. Most of them have recovered and a small percentage of them are still being affected by it, unfortunately some dying. Those dying are .6 percent of those confirmed in this city, not all of them living here, but coming here from other areas already with COVID.
Since you know I live in Jacksonville, to this day, I know no one that has contracted COVID. You have to understand this city has over 700,000 people in it and a little over 11,000 have been confirmed as contracted it, or 1.5 percent of the population. If you take this number 10 times to 110,000, as the CDC has noted that 10 times more than confirmed have probably contracted it, it would only put us at 15 percent. This is compatible to the yearly flu. Keep in mind that probably 9500 or more of these people have probably already recovered or are close to being fully recovered. The vast majority of the rest are at home binge watching netflix.
The level of sheer stupidity is unreal.
Anyone remember this?
(That was from early on...way back on March 10th!