When I open my browser, it shows a Covid-19 graph. There was a big spike in new cases for the U.S. on Oct. 5, 2020.
When I changed the view to number of new deaths, it shows the same kind of spike for Nov. 4.
It's understandable when people are distressed
when they can't work and thus pay their rent, utilities, and food. But to complain because you have to wear a mask in public and not have social gatherings is so wimpy. People in some places have to carry water on
their heads every day.
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-wave-152513366.html
Alexander NazaryanNational Correspondent
,Yahoo News•November 7, 2020
Saturday was supposed to see the University of Virginia’s football team face off against Louisville — but then the coronavirus got in the way. Nine players on Louisville’s team had already been sickened. Then several more fell ill, with seven going into quarantine. The game was postponed.
In central Massachusetts, 150 cases of the coronavirus have been linked to the Crossroads Community Church in Fitchburg. “Videos and photos posted to Crossroads’ public Facebook page in weeks prior didn’t seem to show anyone social distancing or wearing masks,” one news report said.
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the virus appears to be strengthening, killing more than 1,000 Americans every day this week while recording more than 100,000 daily infections. More than 50,000 people across the nation are hospitalized. The share of coronavirus diagnostic tests coming back positive has risen to 8.2 percent this week; last week’s share of positive tests was a markedly lower 7.2 percent.
“The numbers are pretty scary,” says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor, taking stock of the national situation. As he was speaking to Yahoo News on Thursday, the nation was on its way to a record 133,000 new cases for that day. Hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing too, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw during the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.
“It’s a slaughter,” Hotez said. “We’re going to have to take steps.”
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In some quarters, a sense of resignation prevails. The sentiment was best encapsulated by Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, who in late October made a stunning admission to Jake Tapper of CNN: “We’re not going to control the pandemic,” the former North Carolina congressman said. “We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations.”
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Meanwhile, the federal response is in disarray, with President Trump consumed with spreading misinformation about an election he lost. In the run-up to that contest, he conducted a relentless series of campaign rallies that a Stanford study projected may have led to as many as 30,000 new infections and 700 additional deaths.
Trump himself caught the virus and was hospitalized last month. On Friday, news broke that Meadows had contracted the coronavirus, one of several White House or campaign aides to have met the not-especially-surprising fate, given long-standing resistance in Trump’s inner circle to taking proper measures.
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“People are getting really tired of wearing masks, not seeing loved ones,” Blackstock says. Many have resorted to smaller gatherings that have more potential to spread the virus than people may realize.
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Trump insisted in the closing days of the election campaign that the public would barely hear about the deadly virus after Election Day on Nov. 3. “ALL THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IS COVID, COVID, COVID. ON NOVEMBER 4th, YOU WON’T BE HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT IT ANYMORE. WE ARE ROUNDING THE TURN!!!” he complained on Twitter.
Neither Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the White House coronavirus task force, has held a briefing on the pandemic in many weeks.
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Trump insisted in the closing days of the election campaign that the public would barely hear about the deadly virus after Election Day on Nov. 3. “ALL THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IS COVID, COVID, COVID. ON NOVEMBER 4th, YOU WON’T BE HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT IT ANYMORE. WE ARE ROUNDING THE TURN!!!” he complained on Twitter.
Neither Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the White House coronavirus task force, has held a briefing on the pandemic in many weeks.
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In a statement forwarded by a press staffer, CDC Director Robert Redfield said that the nation has entered “a critical phase of the pandemic. That’s why it’s so important that all of us remain diligent in our efforts to defeat the virus —and to protect ourselves, our families and our communities.
“Stopping this pandemic is going to take all our tools: handwashing, masks, social distancing and, hopefully quite soon, vaccines. Taken together, these tools offer the best chance of getting our communities, schools and health systems back to normal sooner.”
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