Trump Insists COVID-19 Is ‘Going Away.’ Record Numbers Of New Cases Say Otherwise.

HOUSTON, TEXAS—JULY 1, 2020—An empty bed is moved back to the emergency room after brining in another COVID-19 patient. At United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, Dr. Joseph Varon leads a team to fight the increasing number of coronavirus patients in the expanded Covid-19 ward on July 1, 2020.  (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
HOUSTON, TEXAS-JULY 1, 2020-An empty bed is moved back to the emergency room after brining in another COVID-19 patient. At United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, Dr. Joseph Varon leads a team to fight the ... HOUSTON, TEXAS-JULY 1, 2020-An empty bed is moved back to the emergency room after brining in another COVID-19 patient. At United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, Dr. Joseph Varon leads a team to fight the increasing number of coronavirus patients in the expanded Covid-19 ward on July 1, 2020. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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As President Donald Trump suggested the coronavirus was winding down around the country during the final presidential debate of the election Thursday, the United States set a record high for new cases in a single day — 77,000 — a total that surpasses an earlier record set in July.

77,640 new cases were reported across the country for the day, an increase by roughly 2,000 cases from the previous record of 75,723 set on July 29, according to NBC News’ count.

The record-breaking total comes as the total number of coronavirus cases in the country has reached nearly 8.5 million, with roughly 224,000 deaths. 

Dr. Jay Butler, deputy director for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighted what he called a “distressing trend” during a press briefing on Wednesday. The public health official said that coronavirus case numbers are “increasing in nearly 75 percent of the country” — even as President Donald Trump just a day later claimed from the debate stage in Nashville, Tennessee that coronavirus cases are winding down and the nation is “rounding the corner” on COVID-19.

“It will go away and as I say, we’re rounding the turn, we’re rounding the corner. It’s going away,” Trump said on Thursday.

States like Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin in particular have reported higher case counts in the last two weeks. Public health officials like infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci have warned Americans to prepare to “hunker down” as cooler weather sets in and people spend more time indoors a factor that is likely to drive an increase in cases.

In response to Trump’s ever-rosy picture of the virus, Biden pushed back on Thursday, rebuking Trump for suggesting the virus is disappearing while encouraging people to learn to live with it.

“People are learning to die with it,” Biden said.

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  1. Fires go out when there’s nothing left to burn

  2. Just because you keep saying it, doesn’t make it true.

    Dickhead.

  3. Actually, it’s COVID-45 that’s FINALLY going away on November 3rd.

  4. The Black Death went away eventually, come to think of it, after killing a third of the population of Europe, or two thirds, they’re not sure. They handled it about like we did; the rich fled the population centers because they could afford to, the poor died because they couldn’t. It was what it was. We could have done better but we put a crazy ignoramus in charge, with predictable results. Cases shooting upward in my state. No testing. My doctor and I were talking about it yesterday, but not much, because there’s nothing to say. He said bitterly that the way to get tested was to be a major league athlete.

  5. Avatar for ljb860 ljb860 says:

    The one item and the only item that The Turnip is correct about is that we are tired of COVID. That does not mean we open up, forget any lessons learned, or we go back to our complacent lives. What it means is that we continue to be cautious, continue to help others, that we prepare based on the lessons learned for the next pandemic and the next and the next.

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