This is what Canada has to look forward too unless everyone takes Covid seriously right now. Numbers are excerpts from Boston Globe for Friday 13th
Today's coronavirus / COVID-19 numbers in the US
From the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
Confirmed US cases: 10,675,820
Confirmed US deaths: 243,387
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-More than 130 Secret Service officers who help protect the White House and the president when he travels have recently been ordered to isolate or quarantine because they tested positive for the coronavirus or had close contact with infected co-workers....about 10 percent of the agency's core security team is sidelined.
-Yesterday, 163,402 more Americans were confirmed as infected, an increase of 72 percent from two weeks ago.
- 1,172 more Americans died yesterday, an increase of 33 percent in two weeks, according to The New York Times COVID-19 map and case count.
-The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 rose to 67,096, a jump of 39 percent in two weeks.
-The Times reports that over the past week, there has been an average of 134,078 new cases per day, which is a 72 percent jump from the average two weeks ago and yes, another record.
-New cases are increasing in every state, territory, and the District of Columbia except for Puerto Rico, which is seeing a slight decline.
-Deaths are rising in 36 states and territories.
-If you live in South Dakota or Iowa, and take a COVID-19 test, the odds are that you will test positive. That's right: Positivity rates in those two states are above 50 percent. In South Dakota, it's 56.4 percent; Iowa, 51.4 percent.
-There are only 11 locales where the positivity rate is at or below 5 percent:
-The high positivity rates don't correlate with more testing. In fact, South Dakota and Iowa are testing fewer people per 1,000 population than any of the 11 states with low positive results.
From the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
Confirmed US cases: 10,675,820
Confirmed US deaths: 243,387
________________________________________
-More than 130 Secret Service officers who help protect the White House and the president when he travels have recently been ordered to isolate or quarantine because they tested positive for the coronavirus or had close contact with infected co-workers....about 10 percent of the agency's core security team is sidelined.
-Yesterday, 163,402 more Americans were confirmed as infected, an increase of 72 percent from two weeks ago.
- 1,172 more Americans died yesterday, an increase of 33 percent in two weeks, according to The New York Times COVID-19 map and case count.
-The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 rose to 67,096, a jump of 39 percent in two weeks.
-The Times reports that over the past week, there has been an average of 134,078 new cases per day, which is a 72 percent jump from the average two weeks ago and yes, another record.
-New cases are increasing in every state, territory, and the District of Columbia except for Puerto Rico, which is seeing a slight decline.
-Deaths are rising in 36 states and territories.
-If you live in South Dakota or Iowa, and take a COVID-19 test, the odds are that you will test positive. That's right: Positivity rates in those two states are above 50 percent. In South Dakota, it's 56.4 percent; Iowa, 51.4 percent.
-There are only 11 locales where the positivity rate is at or below 5 percent:
-The high positivity rates don't correlate with more testing. In fact, South Dakota and Iowa are testing fewer people per 1,000 population than any of the 11 states with low positive results.
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