Ohio and Kentucky have their largest daily increases in COVID-19 cases

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

as people in the 2 states call for lockdowns to end

The states of Kentucky and Ohio saw their highest single-day increase in the number of COVID-19 cases so far on Sunday amid ongoing protests in the states about whether to relax state-mandated social distancing guidelines.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Sunday the state had 253 new cases since Saturday. The Ohio Department of Health reported 1,353 new cases on Sunday, according to the report, which also marks the state's largest jump in new cases.

Kentucky residents have over the past week protested Beshear's "Healthy at Home" order, which closes non-essential businesses. On Friday, protesters circled the state capital in Frankfort in their cars, honked their horns, held signs that demand the order be lifted, and waved American flags.

Protesters could also be heard shouting on Wednesday as they stood outside the state Capitol briefing room and protested while Beshear delivered his daily briefing on the pandemic, WDRB reported.

https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-kentucky-largest-daily-increases-201146628.html

[gibraltar72]

1. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Ohio has a bunch of idiots.

DeWine and Acton have tried, but there’s only so much that can be done with an uncooperative citizenry.

There’s a group of my neighbors talking loudly to each other outside, in close proximity with none of them wearing masks, as I type this.

[Ohiogal]

3. That's true, we have a bunch of idiots here.

But wasn’t that big jump due to the prison in Marion? Over 1200 tested positive there, I believe.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Maybe so.

I took a break from it last night and this morning, so I’m not up to date yet.

[Maeve]

6. I believe you are correct

Because they did massive testing there--now, they are doing testing at the prison in Pickaway Co. and we can expect another jump. Other states aren't doing this type of testing.

https://www.10tv.com/article/ohio-confirms-first-coronavirus-cases-continues-testing-2020-mar

Ohio inmates make up nearly one in four of the state's coronavirus cases following a spike in identified infections as universal testing takes place inside three state prisons.

Figures released Sunday show 1,828 positive tests at Marion Correctional Facility in north-central Ohio, out of about 2,500 total inmates, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

In addition, 109 employees at Marion have tested positive, out of a total of about 350 workers, which includes about 295 guards. One Marion prison guard died earlier this month.

Systemwide, 2,400 inmates have tested positive and six have died, including five at Pickaway Correctional Facility in central Ohio, where 384 inmates have tested positive out of a population of about 2,000. Even the head of the prison guards' union, Christopher Mabe, is in self-quarantine after his wife, a guard at Lorain Correctional Institution, tested positive.

The spike in prison infections sent the state’s tally of cases on Sunday to more than 11,600, which includes 471 deaths.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Well. That went over pretty well.

Don't you think? Fucking idiots!

[SheltieLover]

7. This!👆

K&R

[riversedge]

8. IDIOT @KellyannePolls conway: "Some of these governors have physically distanced from common sense"

Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to the president, said Monday she likewise believed some governors had taken too strong of measures to protect their residents from COVID-19.

"Some of these governors have physically distanced from common sense," Conway said during an appearance on Fox News.

[SoonerPride]

9. I do not know how her husband keeps from strangling her.

.............or at least divorcing her.

I couldn't take it.

I literally could not stand to be married to a trumpian apologist and ESPECIALLY one who goes on TV to lie all the goddamned time.

It would drive me insane.

[riversedge]

10. I could not stand to be in the same room with her.

[SoonerPride]

12. Right?

She is one of the more maddening bubble heads.

The crazy ass shit that comes out of her mouth blows my mind and makes me blow a gasket.

[SheltieLover]

16. I don't know why the media gives that thing air time

I guess it goes right back to this country allowing dump to shit all over our country & kill citizens. She speaks for the patriarchal leader.

Sickening. I can't...

[SheltieLover]

15. I can't stand

being on the same planet with her & her ilk. Not with them in positions of power.

[SheltieLover]

14. I don't know how or why

he stays married to that thing either.

[SheltieLover]

13. Heaven forbid govt leaders protect citizens from dump's negligent fenocide!

crack whore is insane. (No offense intended to those who are chemically dependent or sex workers.)

[Ms. Toad]

11. Ohio's data is not reported accurately in the article

There are 200 new cases on Sunday. On Saturday, there were 13,495 cases, on Sunday there were 13,625, making 140 new cases - not 1353. Check it out for yourself:

https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards

There were large jumps on the 16th and the 17th - a combination of more testing + the CDC definition of "confirmed cases" that changed on the 14th (which Ohio started including mid-week). Aside from the jumps that are akin to China's redefinition of case on 2/12, Ohio's curve is still bending.

Yes, we have idiot protesters.

[greenjar_01]

17. Oklahoma saw nearly 15% of its total deaths YESTERDAY

This will be bad.