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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.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Grishnakh on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:22AM (6 children)
Hopefully you'll die painfully of Covid. It would serve you right.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:35AM (1 child)
:-) And that will make you feel better?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:53PM
You, grasshopper, haven't yet fully understood assholes.
Yes, in fact, it would make him feel better. And that's the very problem. Dopamine reward from someone else's suffering. Probably double-dose reward if Grishnakh has some part in it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @05:18AM (3 children)
Around here the average age of people that die from Covid is going down. In the spring it was up around 75 or 80. Now down to about 60 (I think that was the number I saw in the paper). If you were counting on your (and your families) youth for a get-out-of-Covid free card, that may no longer be available to you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:33PM
Think. Does that rationally make sense?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:21PM
Now go and look up the number on the government's official site instead. Will help you relegate papers to their rightful place in the toilet (useful when toilet paper gets scarce in brave new locked-down world).
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 18 2020, @02:52AM
I'm not counting on my age at all. Even people who survive have a 1 in 5 chance of lasting neurological problems according to the latest news I've read, and others have lasting respiratory problems. I'm doing my best to avoid catching it in the first place by avoiding the common ways of contracting it, unlike idiots like these people who flout safety and have unnecessary large gatherings (without masks most likely). Unfortunately, there's so many idiots in the US acting like the idiot above that the infection rates are going through the roof now, and death rates are right behind. Even so, some of these morons are literally dying in the hospital while insisting "it's not real!!" (or "it must be pneumonia", or "it must be lung cancer"). Seriously, how idiotic does a country's populace have to be when they're literally dying and their last words are a refusal to believe in the very disease that's killing them? Are there any historical precedents for stupidity on such a large, national scale? Usually, when groups of people utterly refuse to believe the reality that's right in front of them, it's some kind of brainwashed cult with numbers in the dozens, not millions.