10-17-2020, 01:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-17-2020, 01:39 PM by OutsiderFan.)
France reported 32,000+ cases today. This is 4x what they reported at peak in March.
To put it in perspective, this would be the equivalent of the United States recording over 152,000 cases in one day. It does seem we are headed to a 100,000+ new reported infection day in the next couple weeks. Should line up nicely with Election Day.
Italy just reported over 10,000 for the second day in a row. At its height in March, Italy didn't even have 7,000 cases per day reported and was overwhelmed. If we get on the Italian trajectory, we'll be just over 100,000 cases per day.
Can you say PANDEMIC?
Does the fact we have had experience dealing with this virus for months mean we'll be able to live with it better than in the initial surge? Or will the sheer numbers just overwhelm us? It seem fewer deaths are occurring from infections, but we still don't have much insight into long-term health consequences, to say nothing of the implications of over-topped hospital and medical care capacity.
I'm going to guess when the numbers start getting to 100,000 cases today and more stores like this start appearing again, we'll see people start to take the virus seriously and start staying away from others.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1317493874860937216[/tweet]
To put it in perspective, this would be the equivalent of the United States recording over 152,000 cases in one day. It does seem we are headed to a 100,000+ new reported infection day in the next couple weeks. Should line up nicely with Election Day.
Italy just reported over 10,000 for the second day in a row. At its height in March, Italy didn't even have 7,000 cases per day reported and was overwhelmed. If we get on the Italian trajectory, we'll be just over 100,000 cases per day.
Can you say PANDEMIC?
Does the fact we have had experience dealing with this virus for months mean we'll be able to live with it better than in the initial surge? Or will the sheer numbers just overwhelm us? It seem fewer deaths are occurring from infections, but we still don't have much insight into long-term health consequences, to say nothing of the implications of over-topped hospital and medical care capacity.
I'm going to guess when the numbers start getting to 100,000 cases today and more stores like this start appearing again, we'll see people start to take the virus seriously and start staying away from others.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1317493874860937216[/tweet]