COVID-19 Megathread 5: The Trumps catch COVID-19

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https://twitter.com/FrankBruni/status/1253738891221368836

Would've been perfect if he ended the tweet with "It tastes a lot like Bleach."

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https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1255734356728922113

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1187829299207954437

A reminder that it didn't need to be this way.

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https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1187829299207954437

A reminder that it didn't need to be this way.

Well of course no country on earth is prepared for a pandemic if you ask government epidemiologists and big pharma lobbyists.  How else would they get their $$$? 

This is like when the American Academy of Civil Engineers every year gives the vast majority of states a bad grade on road infrastructure.  Serious risk-seeking and adverse incentives are at play.   

We're in the mess we're in because the Trump administration didn't take this seriously.  They were warned by their own intelligence communities countless times during crucial months and took no action because they were worried about the stock market.  That's the point.  On the same day Biden was tweeting about pandemic preparedness, Trump was tweeting about the features of his iPhone.

The Obama administration took this stuff seriously.  I suggest you read up on the actions Obama and his administration took in response to the H1N1 and Ebola outbreaks.  They similarly put together a team/game plan designed to fight this stuff, and the Trump administration ignored it.  Having a hundred-thousand Americans die in a pandemic was avoidable.  It happened because this administration has no idea what they are doing and they don't care.

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Some states (Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Florida, California) are reporting some pretty scary numbers today. 

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Some states (Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Florida, California) are reporting some pretty scary numbers today. 

Most of those (especially Michigan) just started counting probable cases with the certain cases.

Also, today was by far the biggest testing day yet (550,000 tests).

Good to know about Michigan.  Arizona and the others may be concerning though.  I read that the positive test rate has gone up sharply in AZ. 

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I read a post/article on Iran's COVID-19 response that seems relevant.  Iran experienced a second wave similar to what we are experiencing now (rising cases, lower average age of of cases, but not yet seeing a corresponding rise in deaths).  Deaths didn't spike initially but did 3-4 weeks later after the younger people passed the virus onto other subgroups (elderly, etc.) more likely to die from the virus.

If this is what is happening to us I'd expect to see the death rate climb in the coming weeks.  Hopefully that's not the case but we'll see.

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I read a post/article on Iran's COVID-19 response that seems relevant.  Iran experienced a second wave similar to what we are experiencing now (rising cases, lower average age of of cases, but not yet seeing a corresponding rise in deaths).  Deaths didn't spike initially but did 3-4 weeks later after the younger people passed the virus onto other subgroups (elderly, etc.) more likely to die from the virus.

This is not a second wave. This is a revival of the first wave, instigated by bad policy and worse community practices.

I wasn't claiming that the US is experiencing a second wave.  I agree we are still in the first wave.  I was referencing Iran's second wave.

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I read a post/article on Iran's COVID-19 response that seems relevant.  Iran experienced a second wave similar to what we are experiencing now (rising cases, lower average age of of cases, but not yet seeing a corresponding rise in deaths).  Deaths didn't spike initially but did 3-4 weeks later after the younger people passed the virus onto other subgroups (elderly, etc.) more likely to die from the virus.

This is not a second wave. This is a revival of the first wave, instigated by bad policy and worse community practices.

I wasn't claiming that the US is experiencing a second wave.  I agree we are still in the first wave.  I was referencing Iran's second wave.

"Iran experienced a second wave similar to what we are experiencing now." The "what" is ambiguous, and lends itself to be interpreted as a pronominal equivalent of "second wave."

Thanks for the clarification.

I agree, my post could have been worded more clearly.  I simply meant that what they were experiencing in their second wave was similar to what we are experiencing now.

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https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/1278349068817833984

I think this might be the highest number of per capita new cases that any state has ever reported.

Edit: For reference, this would be the equivalent of 220,000 new cases if scaled up to the US population.

We're screwed. They've literally had to implement Death Panels because the hospitals are overrun.  There is blood on our idiot Governor's hands.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2020/06/30/crisis-care-standards-arizona-code-coronavirus-death-panels/3285410001/