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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.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 16 2020, @09:35PM (14 children)
Sad. We shouldn't be traveling around the country, unless really and truly necessary. But, the visitor didn't exactly "killed their parents". It's just a shitty luck of the draw. The God of Random Numbers wasn't very kind to them.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Monday November 16 2020, @09:37PM (2 children)
I would feel fully responsible if that was me. The risk was known, and a decision to take the risk was made.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:41PM (1 child)
Yep, I'd feel responsible too and even if I self quarantined in advance of my trip, there is still the possibility of catching it in an airport or on a plane.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:44AM
Well, there's generally several days between the time you catch it and the time you become infectious. I'd need to look it up, and it's variable, but I think the average is around 4 days.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @10:02PM (2 children)
Your grand daughter caught it via one or more asshole that didn't wear a mask. Shitty luck and God of Random?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @10:15PM (1 child)
Wasn't established that Runaway's granddaughter had Covid-19. Could have been flu. But in either case, the cruel bastard has not given us any updates! Out of the hospital? Recovering? What is going on?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 16 2020, @10:35PM
*sigh*
Apologies. Yes, it was flu. The kid is over it. Eating like a little pig, and driving brothers and sisters nuts again.
I mentioned it in one post, somewhere, damn if I can remember which one. ;^)
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Monday November 16 2020, @10:19PM
The visitor certainly did increase the chances of a shitty draw or disfavor from the God of Random Numbers.
Personal responsibility and all that. If a parent leaves a loaded gun out where the kids might play with it, the parent gets the blame if someone gets shot. They don't get to say the kid pulled the trigger without aiming and it just happened to kill the postman, so too bad about that bad luck...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @10:22PM (2 children)
Word of the day for you to learn: "negligence".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:23AM
Criminal negligence. That's when one knows the behaviour is risky for the limb and life of others but chooses to give a fuck about.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday November 17 2020, @09:09AM
Presumably the parents could have said "no". So there is some level of complicity
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @02:55AM (3 children)
Random had nothing to do with it. It was a visit by someone who was infected that did it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:05AM (1 child)
It's still pretty fucking random. Or, do you have some power to look around you, and determine who is sick, and who will be sick? The guy didn't know he was sick, until it was too damned late to do anything about it, apparently.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 3, Touché) by sjames on Tuesday November 17 2020, @05:58AM
Running around in camo wearing deer antlers during hunting season is pretty random too, but does that make it a good idea?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:06AM
Thanks, I've barely been out of the house(*). Definitely wasn't me.
(*) - that's not so much because of fear covid, but because mass fear of covid has enabled to me to live my dream shut-in lifestyle :-)
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