COVID 19 UPDATES: 12 / 8 / 2020

AS THE PANDEMIC GETS WORSE AND WORSE,  Massachusetts is enacting new covid restrictions, Dr Fauci says we have not yet seen “the full blunt” of the Thanksgiving surge, the traditional Michigan-Ohio State football game has been cancelled, nearly 1.5 million US children have Covid, and the chief of “Operation Warp Speed” gave a ringing endorsement of Trump’s latest nutty executive order.  “I don’t know and, frankly, I’m staying out of this.”

WORLDOMETER stats:

  • +200,121 new cases
  • +1,554 new deaths
  • 15.4 million cases, >290,000 deaths

JOHNS HOPKINS stats:

  • America’s 7 day positive test average is 10.5% and slowly climbing
  • 5 states + DC have a positive rate of 5% or less
  • 34 states have a positive rate of 10% or higher
  • highest rates of new cases in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Kansas, Wyoming

COVID TRACKING PROJECT stats:

  • Hospitalizations  102,141
  • In ICU Wards  20,098
  • On Ventilators  7,073

Stats compiled by, snake.