Trump Jr. on 1,000 Deaths a Day in the US: “The Number Is Almost Nothing.”
Deaths Up 16% in the Last Two Weeks, Experts Warn of 500K+ American Deaths By January
US Reports More Than 88,000 New Cases Thursday, a Record Since the Beginning of the Pandemic
US Reporting More Than One New Case Every Second
Cases Increasing in 43 States
Eight Months Into a Pandemic That Has Killed Nearly 230,000 Americans, Trump and His Allies Are Lying to Americans, Downplaying the Severity of the Virus
Donald Trump Jr. On COVID-19 Deaths In The US: “The Number Is Almost Nothing.”
- “Donald Trump Jr. falsely claimed Thursday that Covid-19 deaths have dwindled to ‘almost nothing,’ despite there being around 1,000 reported in the U.S. the same day. In an interview on Fox News’ ‘The Ingraham Angle,’ the president’s son said that medical experts who have been talking about a surge in cases are ‘truly morons.’ ‘I went through the CDC data, because I kept hearing about new infections, but I was like, “Well why aren’t they talking about deaths?”’ Trump Jr. said. ‘Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this thing, we understand how it works. They have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this.’ ‘It’s gone to almost nothing,’ he repeated, adding that the U.S. is ‘outperforming Europe in a positive way.’” [NBC News, 10/30/20]
President Donald Trump Baselessly Claimed That A Spike In Cases In The US Was A Result Of More Testing, That Deaths Were Down And That Hospitals Had Necessary Capacity.
- “More Testing equals more Cases. We have best testing. Deaths WAY DOWN. Hospitals have great additional capacity! Doing much better than Europe. Therapeutics working!” [Twitter, @DonaldJTrump, 10/30/20]
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Downplayed Rising Hospitalizations And Downplayed The Risk Of The Virus.
- “The American public probably doesn’t know this but if you look at hospital beds across the country, the percentage of hospital beds that are taken up by COVID patients right now are 6 percent… If you are younger than 70, your chances of surviving this disease are 99 percent.” [Fox News, 10/27/20]
RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel: “Cases May Be Rising Because We Are Doing More Testing… But Mortality Rates Are Going Down.”
- McDaniel told Fox Business: “Cases may be rising because we are doing more testing so we find those asymptomatic people, but mortality rates are going down. And that is the key with better therapeutics.” [Fox Business, 10/29/20]
In Reality, Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths Are Spiking in the US, Setting Records as Experts Warn That the Pandemic Is Only Getting Worse
[Axios, 10/29/20]
On October 29, The United States Reported 88,521 New Cases, The Most In A Single Day Since The Beginning Of The Pandemic.
- “Daily Covid-19 cases in the US reached a record high on Thursday, with experts warning that death rates could triple by mid-January. There were 88,521 new cases of the coronavirus reported in the US on October 29, according to data from Johns Hopkins University — 9,540 more cases than Wednesday. In total, there have been 8,944,934 cases and at least 228,656 deaths in the US — 971 of them on Thursday, JHU data shows.” [CNN, 10/30/20]
The Seven-Day Rolling Average Of Daily New Infections Is Now Up To 72,000, The Highest On Record.
- “In the final stretch before Election Day, new single-day case records have soared to an all-time high. The four highest daily case counts have all been reported this week. On average, nearly 72,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus each day over the past week. That’s the highest seven-day average on record.” [Axios, 10/29/20]
According To The New York Times, Cases In the United States Have Increased By 42 Percent Over The Last Two Weeks, While Deaths Have Increased By 16 Percent.
- The New York Times’ “Covid In The U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count” reflects that cases have increased by over 42% the last two weeks and deaths have increased by 16% over the last two weeks. [New York Times, Accessed 10/30/20]
More Than 46,000 Americans Are Currently Hospitalized While All But Eleven States Have Seen Hospitalizations Rise In The Last Week.
- “And hospitals are already under increased strain. As of Thursday, more than 46,000 people were hospitalized, according to the Covid Tracking Project, with all but 11 states seeing a rise in hospitalizations this week.” [CNN, 10/30/20]
Forty-Three States Have Seen An Increase In Cases Over The Last Week.
- “Forty-three states have shown an increase in cases compared to last week, with five holding steady and two — Oklahoma and Louisiana — reporting a decline, according to JHU. New Mexico reported 1,082 new coronavirus cases Thursday — a record — and a top health care executive there sounded the alarm about the direction of Covid-19 spread in his state.” [CNN, 10/30/20]
The Institute For Health Metrics And Evaluation At The University Of Washington School Of Medicine Predicts That More Than 500,000 Americans Could Die Of COVID-19 By Mid-January.
- “The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine says it is most likely that by the middle of January, 2,250 Americans will be dying every day from the coronavirus — three times more than the current rate. And it could get much worse. ‘If states do not react to rising numbers by re-imposing mandates, cumulative deaths could reach 514,000 by the same date,’ the IHME said in its latest forecast. ‘The fall/winter surge should lead to a daily death toll that is approximately three times higher than now by mid-January. Hospital systems, particularly ICUs, are expected to be under extreme stress in December and January in 18 states.’” [CNN, 10/30/20]
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Former Commissioner Of The US Food And Drug Administration: “This Is The Hardest Point In This Pandemic Right Now — The Next Two Months.”
- “‘This is the hardest point in this pandemic right now — the next two months,’ Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said during an interview on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ Thursday. ‘We can’t give up our guard right now.’” [CNN, 10/30/20]
On October 29, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota And Ohio All Reported Record Highs For New Cases In A Day.
- “The state of Illinois also reported a daily high of new Covid-19 cases for the second time in a week with 6,363 new cases Thursday. The total number of Covid-19 cases statewide now stands at 395,458, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and IDPH announced that Region 3 would go into Covid-19 mitigation measures. Nine of the state’s 11 regions will now be under resurgence mitigation measures due to the high average positivity rates of Covid-19 cases. Minnesota, North Dakota and Ohio also reported their highest daily Covid-19 totals Thursday, with 2,872, 1,222 and 3,590 new positive cases respectively.” [CNN, 10/30/20]
Wisconsin Is On Track To Run Out Of ICU Beds, And Nurse Capacity, In “As Little As Two Weeks” And As Of October 27 There Were Only 187 Beds Available In The Whole State.
- “Wisconsin is on track to run out of ICU beds, and nurses to staff them, in as little as two weeks as the state reported 5,200 positive COVID-19 cases Tuesday with only 187 beds available. ‘There is nothing magical about this math,’ said Bill Melms, chief medical officer for Marshfield Clinic Health System. ‘Every single positive increases the probability or likelihood of having another patient who is hospitalized.’” [USA Today, 10/29/20]