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Were in for a whole lot of hurt. Its not a good situation, Anthony S. Fauci, the countrys leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.
Fauci, a leading member of the governments coronavirus response, said the United States needed to make an abrupt change in public health practices and behaviors. He said the country could surpass 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day and predicted rising deaths in the coming weeks. He spoke as the nation set a new daily record Friday with more than 98,000 cases. As hospitalizations increase, deaths are also ticking up, with more than 1,000 reported Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total to more than 229,000 since the start of the pandemic, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post.
Faucis blunt warnings come as Trump has rallied in states and cities experiencing record surges in infections and hospitalizations in a last-ditch effort to convince voters he has successfully managed the pandemic. He has held maskless rallies with thousands of supporters, often in violation of local health mandates.
Even as new infections climb in 42 states, Trump has downplayed the virus or mocked those who take it seriously. Covid-19, covid, covid, covid, he said during one event, lamenting that the news media gives it too much attention. In another rally, he baselessly said that U.S. doctors record more deaths from covid-19, the disease the coronavirus causes, than other nations because they get more money.
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Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)Yesterday we hit 101,461.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)With the election days away he has even more reason to ignore and bullshit through.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)We then have to remember that if they steal the election.
Protest signs wont cut it.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)I said that a long time ago and wished I was wrong, I am not.