May 20 - Global report: largest daily rise in Covid-19 cases prompts WHO warning
Infection rates in Latin America growing rapidly as lockdowns ease in Europe
...The World Health Organization gave a stark warning on Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over, after 106,000 new cases were recorded worldwide over the past 24 hours the most in a single day so far...
EGYPT
‘It’s a disaster’: Egypt’s doctors plead for more PPE and testing Medics increasingly at odds with government that is urging citizens to coexist with Covid-19
...In early May a ministry of health official told a parliamentary committee that quarantine hospitals were full, and doctors complained on social media of having to turn infected people away...Some 745 new cases were recorded on 20 May, the highest one-day total so far. About 13% of those infected are medical professionals, according to the World Health Organization....Hospitals are collapsing. They have to turn away people who come in with symptoms, but these people have no other options as all places are full.
Egypts health ministry spokesman, Khaled Megahed, was not available when contacted for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/21/egypt-doctors-ppe-testing-coronavirus
CCP-KAWASAKI
COVID MYSTERY Kawasaki-like inflammatory disease linked to coronavirus is now affecting young adults not just kids
YOUNG adults are also being hit by the Kawasaki-like mysterious illness striking children amid the coronavirus pandemic, warn doctors.
At least six people in their 20s are being treated for the life-threatening syndrome in California and New York...
..Dr Jennifer Lighter, who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases at NYU Langone, New York City, said, “the older [patients] have had a more severe course” of Kawasaki-like inflammatory illness...an “overwhelming” impact to their heart and several organs.
Brazil is looking very bad. Mexico not much better.
US daily new cases look to me to have leveled off, or maybe even increased slightly the last 2 weeks. Some of that is increased testing:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3847777/posts
(Scroll to: “Testing and New Case Figures”)
All things considered, I believe a conservative estimate would be to expect, on average, 1k US fatalities per day, through the summer. That’s a rather grim number.