Posted on 03/01/2021 8:36:07 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The U.S. has hit a plateau in coronavirus cases and deaths that signal a "potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic," the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned states on Monday not to loosen restrictions and get in front of the progress the country has made since it hit a monumental 300,000 cases a day in January, the worst point of the pandemic so far.
Over the last week, the daily number of cases and deaths, on average, has risen by about 2% compared to the week prior, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a White House press briefing, to about 67,000 cases per day and 2,000 American lives lost to the virus each day. It's nearly a third of what the U.S. was seeing during its holiday surge, but still no better than what the U.S. saw during the summer peak.
"With these new statistics, I am really worried about reports that more states are rolling back the exact public health measures we have recommended to protect people from COVID-19," Walensky said. "I understand the temptation to do this -- 70,000 cases a day seems good compared to where we were just a few months ago -- but we cannot be resigned to 70,000 cases a day, 2,000 daily deaths."
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We have to flatten the plateau.
She is not much of a scientist. The reason there is a 2% rise was the week before Texas was completely off the grid with he winter storm. Now it is back on line but the numbers remain low
Last gasp at absolute control as people are now making their own decisions.
The scam cult hates losing it’s grip on power.
"I was just getting used to feeling important!"
DeSantis scares them. Governors that remain open with no issues put the lie to claims of the cult.
Nope. We need to flatten DC
Maybe if we stopped importing new cases from Mexico....
The CDC dude must not understand how credibility works.
I prefer keeping Texas closed (to illegals and libs). Kick those that are already in Texas out (to Washington D.C.!)
there are schools that have been open since the year began, and they didn’t require massive federal funds either, and they have had only 1 case of the virus
The Rats have played their ChiCom virus game long enough.Apparently they don’t fear it that much since they are bringing hundreds of thousands of illegals infected with it every month.
Its time too reopen everything without mandatory mask laws and social distancing b.s.
Listen to her. She did not close the state and lock up the people of her state.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks at CPAC 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFaL9YfnkI8
Great speech. IIRC she said Dr. Faud said something like 10k in the hospital on the worst day if she didn’t shut down her state. The worst day was actually 600.
You hit the nail on the head. They love their "public heath measures" AKA control over your life under the guise they know best.
It's been almost a YEAR of 15 days to slow they spread and they keep saying wear masks, social distance, shutter your business, etc. to stop CCPVirus ad it has failed yet they say just keep it up a bit longer.
President Noem...
Nerp. No thanks. She isn’t conservative. She’ll pull a bait and switch so fast...
She has a record...
The hype did nothing to convince people to wear masks properly, covering their noses and not around their necks. I can't tell you the number of people I want to face-punch for pulling their masks clear off their faces to talk. They are IDIOTS.
In my experience, a lack of mask use is fairly common among Latino men and younger people regardless of ethnicity. There's a certain white demographic that doesn't mask up either.
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