Don't know if anyone posted this yet, but it looks like covid just broke 40,000 cases today

[Quixote1818]

You have to click on "yesterday" now to see today's numbers:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[BigmanPigman]

1. And 5,000 new cases in FL, TX and CA.

[FightingIrish]

2. That's without any update from the U.S. Military

They usually have significant daily numbers.

[mucifer]

3. 126,000 deaths

[at140]

6. 126,000 deaths from 2.47 million infected equals 5.1% death rate

seems quite high to me.

[uponit7771]

7. WOW ... that's horrible

[at140]

8. Well...cancer death rate is close to 50%

looking at glass half full!

[uponit7771]

9. If Cancer was a virus IINM its Ro would be really really low, but yeah ... fuck cancer too

[LisaL]

12. I believe covid is #1 killer in the world right now.

[Quixote1818]

10. Still only the very sick get tested for the most part. The actual numbers of cases are suposed to

be around 10 times the confirmed. So there really have been probably around 25 million cases with 126,000 deaths. Death rate of .5 which is still very deadly. 1 in 200 people die from this.

[NickB79]

11. It's possible there are really 20 million infected so far

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-20-million-americans-thought-to-have-contracted-covid-19-2020-06-25?mod=mw_latestnews

Which would be a more reasonable 0.5-0.7% mortality rate.

But that still implies 1.5 million dead before herd immunity is reached.

[Quixote1818]

13. Thanks for the link. I just responded with something similar but it's nice to have something to back

it up.

[at140]

20. You are exactly correct!

So we have to choose between 1.5 million dead from covid-19 -or-
suffer the consequences of a broken economy for several years with a complete shutdown lasting 6-12 months.
If country is shutdown for a year, there will be suicides galore, domestic abuse galore, divorces galore, unemployment reaching 100 million,
food shortages, water shortages, kids not getting educated, and so on and on.

Very difficult choice lies ahead. There simply are not many good options.

[Blue_true]

16. The death rate has been in the 5+% range for at least 1.5 months.

At the worst, it was near 6%.

It does seem that the death rate has accelerated again in the last 48 hours. The dead was 121,000 just a couple days ago. None of the trend is good. And we have a moron leading the country that doesn't care.

[Demovictory9]

4. the chart lower down the page shows the pattern vividly.. c19 was on the downswing then BOOM!

[Quixote1818]

14. Once things started opening up then a shit load of people just went back to normal

I had to go to a funeral last week and went to the lunch afterwards. There was 150 people there, almost no masks, no social distancing. I have been quarantining myself since. Normally, I avoid stuff like that completely.

[Blue_true]

17. We are back to the worst times.

In fact, it looks like 4,000-5,000 people died in the last two days. If that doesn't drop, it will mean that 14,000-15,000 people per week will be dying, I believe the worst that we would have experienced.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Wow, you're right.

A new daily record for MAGA.

So much winning.

[coti]

15. Many have just given up. Tomorrow (Friday) will be a real "humdinger." nt

[Ms. Toad]

18. Yup.

Now we've broken the new case record (we were a little over 100 short yesterday - despite announcements to the contrary in at least the WAPO yesterday).

[MFM008]

19. Yesterday

Beaches open.
Farmers market.
Everyone out without masks on....
Except me.
This is Washington state.