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US is 'rounding the corner into a calamity,' expert says, with Covid-19 deaths projected to double soon
CNN ^ | November 28, 2020 | Christina Maxouris

Posted on 11/28/2020 4:33:14 PM PST by John W

As Thanksgiving week draws to an end, more experts are warning the Covid-19 pandemic will likely get much worse in the coming weeks before a possible vaccine begins to offer some relief.

More than 205,000 new cases were reported Friday -- which likely consists of both Thursday and Friday reports in some cases, as at least 20 states did not report Covid-19 numbers on Thanksgiving. As of Saturday evening, more than 138,000 new cases and 1,100 deaths had been reported, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The US has now reported more than 100,000 infections every day for 26 consecutive days. The daily average in the week to Friday was more than 166,000 -- almost 2.5 times higher than the summer's peak counts in July.

The number of Covid-19 patients in US hospitals reached record levels on Saturday evening, with 91,635 Americans hospitalized with Covid19, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

And daily Covid-19 deaths in the US have been increasing. The daily average across seven days was 1,477 on Friday. But more than 2,100 deaths were reported on each of the two days before Thanksgiving, the first time that level was crossed on consecutive days since late April.

And while there is more good news on the vaccine front, for now Americans need to "hunker down" and prepare for a difficult winter ahead, according to Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency medicine physician and a visiting professor at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

"We cannot let our guard down," she told CNN Friday night. "The vaccines will make a big difference in the spring and the summer; they're not going to make a difference right now."

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To: Auntie Mame
One Twitterer suggested that it’s possible the first people who get the vaccine will get a placebo. Just think on that for a moment.

Sure, convince everyone it’s safe then unleash the real thing on us.

That kind of evil is breathtaking in its implications.

61 posted on 11/28/2020 5:39:31 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: John W

CNN. OK, why are they lying? There must be some reason.
Keep the nation distracted until Biden is safely inaugurated?


62 posted on 11/28/2020 5:41:48 PM PST by garjog ( )
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To: John W

We just got back from dinner at a fabulous restaurant in New Smyrna Beach Fl. It was PACKED as were others in this area.

What is being done to the people and business owners in CA, Michigan and NY is criminal and evil driven.


63 posted on 11/28/2020 5:57:51 PM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: Mom MD
Indeed, as I wrote below, this highly-contagious but (except for the elderly and those with comorbidities) not very lethal virus is here to stay. If the governors would protect the infirm and the vulnerable without destroying everyone else's life that'd be great.

...assuming that's not their intent...

64 posted on 11/28/2020 6:17:42 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Capt. Tom

The same people are shocked, shocked I tell you, when sharks accumulate near growing/protected seal populations. Ain’t that a kick in the head!


65 posted on 11/28/2020 6:20:49 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Technically not a false positive, but of likely non0infective material I would agree


66 posted on 11/28/2020 6:21:12 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: StAnDeliver

STOP! The damn testing, the social distancing, lock downs and friggan masks and get this country back to work!

I am in Florida where thankfully we have a SANE Governor.

Life here is basically NORMAL!

And also screw taking a bogus vaccine for something that has a higher than 90% rate of surviving which was concocted in dubious record time by vaccine makers who have NO liability for ANY debilitating side effects.

Furthermore, the same vaccine makers that say their vaccines are “safe” will not tell you that their “safe” vaccines have caused so much damage a special Vaccine Court to be set up which has paid out $4 BILLION in taxpayer money for claims of SERIOUS injury.


67 posted on 11/28/2020 6:23:50 PM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The vaccine isn’t questionable, you are fake news


68 posted on 11/28/2020 6:24:06 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: Jeepers43
Why is the initial recorded terror of 10 months ago in Wuhan, so conspicuously absent from any Western news or private Western video? Because it didn't happen. It was propaganda.

OK...

The Chinese wanted us to know it was worse than it was? Then they intentionally allowed flights out of Wuhan... headed to the West but not to other Chinese cities. Was this a dry run for the real bio-attack?

69 posted on 11/28/2020 6:42:42 PM PST by GOPJ (VOTER FRAUD UNDERMINES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY)
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To: John W

“Projected”


70 posted on 11/28/2020 6:45:31 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: John W

But nobody seems interested in the number of false positives which will lower the number of “cases.”

Seems like the higher the number the better it is.


71 posted on 11/28/2020 6:48:01 PM PST by upchuck (When Democrats cheat in front of the whole world, what do you think they will do behind your back?)
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To: John W

How can this ge? It went away the day after thevel3ction.


72 posted on 11/28/2020 6:49:49 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: Captain7seas

That sounds so wonderful, but if Biden and his handlers steal this election, they will shutdown the whole country to finish off the economy and small business. They intend to crush the middle class to bring on their version of a Marxist dictatorship.


73 posted on 11/28/2020 6:50:31 PM PST by Truth29
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To: GOPJ

It was propaganda designed to terrorize. Not to say the virus is entirely fake. But evidence shows it has been nothing like the propaganda, with a 99.5+ percent survival rate.


74 posted on 11/28/2020 6:54:07 PM PST by Jeepers43
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To: Rennes Templar; All
Well, there you have it. You know 14 people who have tested positive for this covid thing in the last two weeks.

While on the other hand, I know of no one, zero, people who have tested positive for this virus since February.

Why is that? Because it's a scam.

And if the only death you know of, of those 14, was 96 years old, then we have a huge crisis on our hands. /sarcasm/

75 posted on 11/28/2020 7:06:03 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: John W

Oh noes! We’se all gonna die!😩


76 posted on 11/28/2020 7:09:30 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DoodleBob; Mom MD
Indeed, as I wrote below, this highly-contagious but (except for the elderly and those with comorbidities) not very lethal virus is here to stay.

Gee, just like the "common cold".

Many are caused by rhinoviruses but some are caused by...drumroll...coronoviruses.

77 posted on 11/28/2020 7:27:02 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Why, it’s almost like it was made to be that way.


78 posted on 11/28/2020 7:29:44 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: gas_dr

Thats effectively a false positive,

Because the context that is viewed as is “you have covid, youre sick, youre quarantined”


79 posted on 11/28/2020 7:34:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: gas_dr

Then if it’s so good, why does everyone have to get it? Herd immunity will make the spread of the virus virtually impossible (since the vaccine is so great) and those who are most in danger will get the vaccine.


80 posted on 11/28/2020 8:03:01 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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