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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @02:55AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @02:55AM (#1078081)

    The God of Random Numbers wasn't very kind to them.

    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)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:05AM (#1078091) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by sjames on Tuesday November 17 2020, @05:58AM

      by sjames (2882) on Tuesday November 17 2020, @05:58AM (#1078157) Journal

      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

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:06AM (#1078093) Journal

    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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