They're all too busy celebrating because the NRA won a court case in California that allows them to carry larger magazines. *shrug*
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60,600 new cases, about 3k fewer than last week.
California: 10,316 new cases; 152 deaths
Texas: 8,690 new cases; 233 deaths
Florida: 6,148 new cases; 229 deaths
Georgia: 3,227 new cases; 35 deaths
Illinois: 2,296 new cases; 27 deaths
Tennessee: 1,947 new cases; 13 deaths
Missouri: 1,427 new cases; 11 deaths
Louisiana: 1,298 new cases; 30 deaths
Virginia: 1,216 new cases; 7 deaths
Kansas: 1,192 new cases (new record); 4 deaths
Ohio: 1,126 new cases; 28 deaths
Nevada: 1,099 new cases; 15 deaths
Indiana: 1,067 new cases; 8 deaths
Wisconsin: 1,021 new cases; 7 deaths
California is still adding cases from the backlog as they said they would be and apparently it's going to be a long process as it all also has to go through at the county level to add demographic information. The problems with the system were so severe that it seems the state's Public Health director resigned as a result.
Florida hasn't gotten their shit together since packing up some temporary testing stations 2 weeks ago ahead of the storm, testing at about half what they were doing before then, so you can be sure their reported numbers aren't telling the full story. That's not stopping them from starting school on time, though. Fuck Florida.
Kansas is an odd one. Their reporting is, frankly, ridiculous. They seem to alternate daily between full and partial reports. Take their last five daily new cases numbers: 885, 93, 792, 123, 1192. The overall trend has definitely been increasing cases, but their silly reporting scheme is going to make it more difficult to pinpoint peaks and such.
Illinois also continues its slow increase. This isn't a new record for them, but it is the highest they've reached since May. This pattern is also present in several other states and is pretty representative of suburban spread, I think. When it hits cities it hits them hard and fast because everyone is packed together. Get it out into the suburbs and it appears to spreads slower...but it's seemingly inexorable. At any rate, cases are continuing overall to decline, but we see pretty clearly that it's still at threat in many areas.
Deaths were a bit lower than last week at 1,120, putting the US total at
171,535. Good chance we'll go back below 1k tomorrow as the weekend starts, but expect them to come right back up to 1k and above next week.
As has been pointed out by others, some schools have already started--and immediately packed back up because of outbreaks.
Over 2,400 staff and students have either been infected or exposed in the past week or so, so that's gone swimmingly.
So, we've got COVID-19 still running rampant as we head into the school year, flu season approaching and probably the single most important election in our lifetimes while the post office is at its least reliable, meaning a lot of Americans are going to be forced to expose themselves and risk their health to exercise their right to vote. This
TRUMP SHITSHOW needs to end, one way or another, before it ends us.
Stay safe, folks.