US Cases: 2,269,455
US Deaths: 113,749
Worldwide Cases: 8,928,652
Worldwide Deaths: 467,671
Don't call it a second wave. The spikes we're seeing in various states (like Arizona) really shouldn't be called a 'second wave', because the first wave hasn't ended:
In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave'” that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.Many public health experts, however, suggest it’s no time to celebrate. About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and daily counts of new cases in the U.S. are the highest they’ve been in more than a month, driven by alarming recent increases in the South and West.But there is at least one point of agreement: “Second wave” is probably the wrong term to describe what’s happening.“When you have 20,000-plus infections per day, how can you talk about a second wave?” said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. “We’re in the first wave. Let’s get out of the first wave before you have a second wave.”
The Trump administration --- including Mike Pence --- haven't taken this pandemic seriously for a single day. That's not going to change. But the numbers don't lie.
Look closely. When exactly did the 'first wave' end?
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