US now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day

[George II]

Source: Associated Press

The U.S. is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.

The U.S. was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143.

It took the U.S. about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January. Cases bottomed out in June but took about six weeks to go back above 100,000, despite a vaccine that has been given to more than 70% of the adult population.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths also increased, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. It rose over the past two weeks from about 270 deaths per day to nearly 500 a day as of Friday.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-b0811d7287ef240ae619ba1e385e0a63

[Marthe48]

1. Now that a variant is hitting the kids

I wonder if the anti-mask, anti-vax are going to quit screwing around and start taking the effort to save our species seriously.

Probably not.

[Orrex]

7. Schools are opening nationwide and there is no political will for a mandate

In many places, my own community included, the daily infection/death numbers are worse today than when we went on lockdown over a year ago, but the unifying, asinine slogan now is “full speed ahead,” an explicit declaration that we are racing toward doom.

[Initech]

15. This is now a pandumbic.

And there aren't enough facepalms in the world for these anti-vaxxer idiots.

[paleotn]

2. The virus that ate the Confederacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

[OneCrazyDiamond]

8. Unfortunately, systemic racism in healthcare

Causes it to hit people of color disproportionately.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/covid-19-heightened-racial-issues-us-report/story?id=78873063

Latinos are hit the worst.
https://salud-america.org/coronavirus-case-rates-and-death-rates-for-latinos-in-the-united-states/

Even out here in California
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Race-Ethnicity.aspx

[NurseJackie]

3. Gosh! It's worse than I thought.

[Warpy]

4. Not surprised

Cases doubled in 4 days here, and we've got relatively good vaccine compliance.

[IronLionZion]

5. The US might have more blue states down south soon

considering the close margins in some elections and now they're losing conservatives.

[NurseJackie]

6. That's definitely a silver lining.

[llashram]

9. this is laying

at the feet of the repthuglikkkan party and their mini-fuhrer.

[Botany]

10. I will always remember when somebody announced @ the "monkeys flinging shit show" aka CPAC ...

... that Biden had fallen short of his goal of 70% of America being vaccinated by July 4th the crowd
cheered. Imagine the cheering on of more unneeded disease, death, suffering, and grief? These
100,000 per day of new cases are on Trump and his followers, Fox News, Christian Evangelical Pastors
and their followers, Russia and others who promote lies and propaganda on social media, dumb asses
including A.A. & Latinos who refuse to get vaccinated and all those other right wing talking heads
and politicians who have made what should have been a science and public health problem into some
kind of bizarre "own the libs" action.

Gov. Desantis is going to get kids killed with his actions.

[Polybius]

11. What was out peak?

I believe it was this January.

[Phil the Kilibuster]

12. This is why you don't screw around with half-measures

Fifty state governments. Fifty sets of laws. And too many idiots in red statehouses.

Biden should declare a National Emergency and get Draconian.

[Botany]

13. +1

BTW welcome to DU.

[Stuart G]

14. Very Sad..."When You Think You Have Seen It All, There is MORE..& MORE..& MORE..

...?? ...vaccine..?? ... ........gloves?....Masks??....hard to do? ...

100,000 new cases a day??....

[Quixote1818]

16. Scott Gottlieb is saying the actual number is probably around a million a day right now. nt

[Socialism Now]

17. With the US facing a resurgent COVID-19 catastrophe

The only response to this disaster is a complete reversal of the present policy. COVID-19 must be eradicated. This means the emergency closure of all schools and non-essential businesses, together with the surging of trillions of dollars for testing, contact tracing, quarantine facilities, hospitals, public health staff, with the aim for totally eradicating the disease so that new variants do not develop