Coronavirus updates: US surpasses record 200K daily cases; virus numbers could be erratic after Thanksgiving, experts warn

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On Friday, the U.S. surpassed 13 million cases of COVID-19. It took less than a week for a million more cases to be reported.

The U.S. on Friday reported 200,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. reached 100,000 daily infections on Nov. 4.

That forecast also assumes social distancing mandates will be reimposed in most U.S. states at various times. If that doesn't occur, case and death counts could be far higher. "Given the experience in Europe, we expect that the increase in deaths will soon begin to match the increase in cases," wrote the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation inThe coronavirus testing numbers that have guided much of the nation's response to the pandemic are likely to be erratic over the next week or so, experts said Friday, as fewer people get tested during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and testing sites observe shorter hours.

Dr. Mark Rupp, professor and chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, said the effect of Thanksgiving is likely to be a magnified version of the weekend figures. The Thursday holiday will exacerbate the record-keeping discrepancies over the long weekend, artificially depressing the reported numbers for four or five days before spiking as test results catch up.

 

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Be cause of the increase in testing.🤷🏽‍♂️

Jane Fonda called the COVID-19 pandemic 'God's gift to the Left.' that tells the opportunism of the Democratic Party. Do they care about the 200K+ Americans, or do they consider these unfortunate victims to be props to use in the anti-Trump drama they subject us to day after day?

OH NO! Only 999,990 out of 1 million have a chance at surviving this deadly virus!

So since Ch*na was responsible for this, when are you going to put the heat of accountability on them? Or are you going to continue the false narrative of attacking Tr*mp for everything that goes wrong? You’re flat out evil.

“Cases” is the wrong metric to look at.

show America how nuts you are... spew hate in god’s name is wrong... this isn’t what the republicans want in there party

The death rate remains flat.

Do, the masks and social distancing are not working you say?

wow

Didn’t Don Jr, being the moron that he is, say Covid was over? His dad said it would be gone by easter. Guess he meant Easter 2025

Cases don't lead to hospitalizations or deaths. 99% recovery rate, 50% false positives and increased cure rates with better treatments.

A fair question

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