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Saturday US COVID News

"‘It’s Traumatizing’: Coronavirus Deaths in the U.S. Are Climbing Again. But now, signs are shifting: More than 1,000 Americans are dying of the coronavirus every day on average, a 50 percent increase in the last month. Twice this past week, there have been more than 1,400 deaths reported in a single day. ‘It’s getting bad and it’s potentially going to get a lot worse,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. ‘The months ahead are looking quite horrifying.’ From the Midwest to the Sun Belt, officials are bracing for a mounting death toll Even the best medicines and techniques lose their usefulness if too many people get sick at the same time, taxing staffing and supplies. But with no announcements from the Trump White House for new measures to respond to the soaring outbreak, most of the country is open for business Particularly painful to those who are part of a growing group who have lost relatives is a sense of indifference about the outbreak, they say, by the public.” NY Times

“Coronavirus cases in the US will spike after Thanksgiving, further stressing health care systems and prompting new restrictions, an emergency physician said Saturday, as states continued to report soaring numbers of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.Dr. James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Hospital, told CNN's Erica Hill he is ‘terrified a’bout what's going to happen this holiday season.” CNN

"Doctors plead on social media for Americans to take the virus surge seriously."

As COVID-19 worsens across the United States, “Trump made an early appearance Saturday at the "Million MAGA March" held in his honor in Washington, D.C., with a throng of supporters cheering him on. Trump has not conceded and has taken legal action in several states." The Hill
While Americans sicken and die, Trump went to play golf.

“SATURDAY 5:30 p.m. -- Missouri health officials reported on Saturday the state’s biggest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases amid record hospitalizations across the state.” KMBC News

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Weird weather day today. Tornado Watch in the area.