COVID19 Update - Day 247

US Tests: 142,467,818*

US Cases: 10,417,836*

US Deaths: 234,328*

Worldwide Cases: 52,556,751*

Worldwide Deaths: 1,290,840*

* - Numbers are a lower bound.  True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration

Not to be a broken record --- but the U.S. keeps breaking #TrumpVirus records:

The current, national COVID-19 outbreak is far and away the worst the virus has ever been, and the federal government is doing less to combat it than it’s ever done.

The virus shattered records this week on hospitalizations and case growth, bending the curve of new cases in the U.S. towards a nearly vertical upward tragectory, showing rapid spread.

And with the death toll spiraling upwards as well, the country is in for a grim winter. Even now, some epidemiologists are, unwillingly, beginning to speak the language of herd immunity and the associated death it takes to get there.

The article goes on to list 'five points on how to make sense of the current outbreak:

• The Lack Of Summer Preparations Makes This Fall COVID Outbreak Far Worse
• And If The Feds Stay Absent, State And Local Governments Won’t Be Able To Pick Up The Slack
• No Money For State And Local Gov Will Hinder Their Ability To Fight COVID, And Could Force Further Budget Cuts Down The Line
• In Some States, Cases Have Outpaced Testing — We Won’t Know The True Scale Of This
• The De-Facto Short-Term Strategy Is Herd Immunity

Read the whole thing, as they say.