Tuesday's report:
28,923 new cases; over
15k more than two weeks ago. Things are getting bad again.
Top 5:
Fuck Florida (over 5k according to worldometers).
Texas: 3,567 new cases; 32 deaths
California: 3,543 new cases; 16 deaths
Missouri: 2,276 new cases; no deaths reported
Arkansas: 1,476 new cases; 15 deaths
The numbers may be a bit of a correction that normally happens the first few days of the week, but even with that in mind there's no doubt numbers are going back up nationally. It's surprising not to see New York in the mix (yet), but their relatively high vaccination rate likely has a lot to do with it. Florida is absolutely in the thick of it--and has likely been legitimately number one since they stopped reporting daily. Texas, as you can see, is also not doing anywhere near as well as its thick-skulled governor claims. California's ticking up again. Missouri and Arkansas are two of the real danger areas given lower vaccination rates and general stupidity.
307 deaths is very slightly lower than two weeks ago and brings the total to
623,435. Missouri is still refusing to publish daily death totals and hasn't for more than a month now. Given that this latest wave basically started off there it's probably safe to assume their numbers are NOT zero, so the death count is likely actually increasing again. It's been much harder the past month to look into trends in specific parts of the country because they decided to declare "Mission Accomplished" prematurely and stop publishing accurate data, but the writing on the wall is pretty clear at this point.
Related news:
US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks--Things can very quickly get out of hand given how contagious Delta is. If you're vaccinated your odds are vastly improved even if you still contract the virus. If you're not vaccinated, good luck. Hope you don't kill anyone...
State's health officials warn of delta 'surge' as 7 children in ICU due to COVID-19--Vaccines haven't been approved yet for children under 12, so if you're going to be one of those assholes who says "I'm strong enough to beat COVID", then do it for the sake of those who aren't able to get vaccines yet you selfish pricks.
Norwegian Cruise Line line sues Florida over COVID-19 vaccine passport ban--Doubt this goes anywhere, because Florida. Fuck Florida.
Stay safe, folks.