So the USA with 4% of the world's population managed 30% of the world's new cases yesterday with 71,787.
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Over 40 Florida hospitals max out ICU capacity as Covid-19 cases surge across US"
The Florida doctors are accusing people of promoting the disease!
“We’re putting ourselves at risk and other people aren’t willing to do anything and in fact go the other way and be aggressive to promote the disease,” Dr Andrew Pastewski, intensive care unit medical director at Jackson South medical center in Miami, told Reuters. Pastewski himself was diagnosed with Covid-19. “It’s just disheartening,” he said.
Any actions taken now to reduce infections will only start to help the hospitals in two weeks time, the hospitals are already full, but they are certain to have twice the incoming patients in 2 weeks time.
So what are the governors doing about it?
Well, for a start Disney World Florida has reopened today, that is going to help!
The message has gone out: "If we all wear masks, it will go away.", but clearly masks alone are not going to work, the recent rapid increase in cases has matched the rapid increase in press coverage of masks, maybe masks are causing the current rise in cases!
(where is our mask emoticon?)
"In South Carolina, where COVID-19 is surging, Gov. Henry McMaster said he is issuing an executive order prohibiting the sale of alcohol at bars and restaurants after 11 p.m. each night." - Does the virus only come out after 11PM?
While people are struggling to get a test,
the vets are busy testing pet dogs!
And Trump, who last had a virus update from Fauci over 2 months ago, has been busy visiting Florida for an election campaign fundraising event, ignoring the mask rules:
I'll have to update my estimated USA final death toll to a half million, the 300,000 estimate was based on them actually locking down when the hospitals started overflowing, and on an exponential increase, you don't have to go long for the big numbers to become enormous!
Meanwhile, in Europe, the excess deaths figure for week 27 was minus 7,035 - that is 7,035 lives saved in 1 week, not lives lost, largely from having wiped out the flu, but also because some of the people who would have died now actually died a few months ago when covid-19 was peaking.