COVID-19 Update

https://trumpdeathclock.com/

At today's growth rate, we'll have 318,000 dead Americans by Election day.

IHME has put out a few scenarios that are marginally less gloomy:

Rachel Maddow 07-21-2020

WaPo:

Six months after the first coronavirus case appeared in the United States, most states are failing to report critical information needed to track and control the resurgence of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to an analysis released Tuesday by a former top Obama administration health official.

The analysis is the first comprehensive review of covid-19 data that all 50 states and Washington, D.C., are using to make decisions about policies on mask-wearing and opening schools and businesses. In the absence of a national strategy to fight the pandemic, states have had to develop their own metrics for tracking and controlling covid-19. But with few common standards, the data are inconsistent and incomplete, according to the report released by Resolve to Save Lives, a New York nonprofit led by former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden and part of the global health organization Vital Strategies.

Some essential information that would show response effectiveness is not being reported at all. Only two states report data on how quickly contact tracers were able to interview people who test positive to learn about their potential contacts. Not a single state reports on the turnaround time of diagnostic tests, the analysis found. Week-long waits for results hobble efforts to track real-time virus spread and make contact tracing almost irrelevant.

These fuckin' Cult45 jerks understand perfectly well that the whole shebang runs on information, and so is absolutely dependent on the proper flow of information - and more important, the proper application of that information. But they believe they have the right to use the information to their own benefit with no regard to how the rest of us are negatively impacted by their deliberate neglect.

People are suffering and dying needlessly because Trump wants dollars in his pockets, and the GOP is in league with him because they need him to cover for them as they run their real-time experiment in Radical Libertarianism.