Trump is insane to say that Arizona is a model, at current rates, in a week or sooner, it's going to

[Celerity]

pass us up here in Sweden in terms of population-adjusted total deaths. 6 days ago they had 172 deaths in a 24 hour period.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/arizona/



That is the Swedish equivalent of 241.

The worst death day we ever had here was 115 (twice, in April, on the 8th, and the 15th, and we only had 2 other days with over 100 deaths, also in April, 111 on April 16th, and 103 on April 11th). Arizona has had 15 days with over 100 deaths in terms of Swedish equivalent, and most all have been in the last month or so.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa



I also think that Arizona, like a lot of other states run by Rethugs, has massive data problems and is suppressing the death (and case) count.

[Squinch]

1. It has passed New York in per capita cases.

[Mike 03]

2. Many people here have given up on getting tested. There was an article posted this morning,

but everyone has said the same thing for three weeks. Nobody wants to wait in 105 degree temperatures for six or eight hours to get tested (or turned away when they close or run out of tests). And there were reports of people in the Phoenix area coming the night before and camping out to get tested and still having to wait hours. And they know even if they get tested, it will take ten days to get the results.

My brother in law's mother has all the symptoms, and was just tested and they told her "ten days" for her results. (She's in her eighties, is in a long term health care facility and suffers from debilitating dementia and has other risk factors--still, ten days!)

[Celerity]

3. waiting 7 to 12 days for results is MADNESS, it is damn near worthless in terms of stopping COVID-19

[TreasonousBastard]

5. What's wrong with them that they aren't storming the gates? The answer isn't to say "fuck it" and..

just go home to wait to die. Demand proper and timely testing.

Between the state and DC this is a horrific abrogation of the duty the government has for the welfare of its citizens.

[malaise]

4. It's all politics

He is going to lose Arizona

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Positivity Is 18.1%

Per Johns-Hopkins, 7 day MA, as of yesterday. That's out of >6,800 tests. (Which seems low, as Illinois did 42,600 tests. Illinois is not 6.5 times the population of Arizona.)
18.1% positive tests in a state that isn't testing aggressively is not a model to be followed.