The pandemic continues. Via The New York Times: Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count. Excerpt:
At least 1,223 new coronavirus deaths and 132,797 new cases were reported in the United States on Nov. 6. Over the past week, there has been an average of 100,991 cases per day, an increase of 57 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
As of Saturday evening, more than 9,948,400 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 237,500 have died, according to a New York Times database.
Case numbers in the United States have been spiking for weeks. Weekly infection reports reached record levels in more than half the country in early November, and there were almost no hopeful signs in the data.
As conditions worsened and winter approached, some governors in the Northeast issued stay-at-home advisories. In Iowa, exhausted hospital leaders pleaded with residents to wear masks and avoid crowds. And in both rural counties and major cities, infections continued rising to fearsome new levels with no end in sight.
Deaths, though still well below their peak spring levels, averaged more than 800 per day in early November, far more than were reported in early July.
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