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U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million in a Week

posted by martyb on Monday November 16 2020, @08:47PM   
from the up-20%-is-good,-right? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus_:

U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week:

U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week

More than 11 million confirmed coronavirus cases have been recorded in the United States, according to a COVID-19 tracker by Johns Hopkins University. The country reported 166,555 new cases on Sunday, with 1,266 new deaths.

The staggering milestone was reached only six days after the U.S. hit 10 million cases. Positive test rates and hospitalization rates are on the rise across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[...] Hospitalizations continue to climb. More than 69,000 people were hospitalized as of Sunday, more than ever before.

The pandemic also continues to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities in the U.S. According to data from the CDC as of Nov. 7, hospitalization rates for Hispanic or Latino people are 4.2 times higher than that of white people. American Indian or Alaska Native people have been hospitalized at 4.1 times the rate of white people, with Black people being hospitalized at 3.9 times the rate of white people.

[...] The Trump administration has blocked the current coronavirus task force from communicating with President-elect Biden's team.

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• Re:one giant chipRe:one giant chip (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:17PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:17PM (#1077929)

  Some people are incapable of thinking without race crossing their tiny minds. It appears that most of them are affiliated with the D party. Identity politics is the thing in America now.

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• Re:one giant chip(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @08:18AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @08:18AM (#1078169)

  Don't fool yourself into thinking the Rs aren't delighted by the ratio...
  That's a big reason that losing 1% of the population doesn't bother them!
  If 3/4 of those 1% are people you don't like anyways, and you have treatments that are unavailable to them, it's a win win for the Racist white elites!

  Don't blame the Democrats for being appalled!

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• Re:one giant chip(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:56PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:56PM (#1078308)

  They do it in the name of being "do-gooders", simply to boost their own sense of self-importance and power.

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