US
Hot weather
Increasing to 1m tests per day by September
Thursday 25 June 39,000
Friday 26 June 45,300
Saturday 27 June 42,700
Sunday 28 June 39,000
Monday 29 June 41,400
Tuesday 30 June 45,700
Wednesday 1 July 51,200
Thursday 2 July 54,869
Cases, 2,739,879
Deaths, 128,740
Cases increasing after Memorial Day
Mr. Trump thinking about wearing a mask
Surgeon general, I’m begging you, wear a face covering
Alabama
Parties of college students
Worst effected states
Florida
Cases, + 10,109 = 169,000
Deaths, 3,617
Arizona
30% of tests coming back positive
Hospital capacity maxed out
NY
Much more progressive reopening
People wearing masks
Texas
Hospitals under stress, 7,000 hospitalized
State-wide mandatory mask order
After initial resistance
$300 fines
South Carolina
Increasing numbers of young people hospitalized
California
Bars, cinemas, closed again
LA beaches closed for 4th July
Money
32% of working Americans currently some medical debt
28% of those owe $10,000 or more
New York
Epidemiologists braced for a surge of new coronavirus cases
But it has not come yet
May 28th, spread in New York City was already slowing down
Overall positive tests in NY in June, from 3% to about 2%
Reasons
Low risk of encountering a case
Limited regional data from NY
Organisers distributed masks
Moving about
Outdoors
Dilution effects means viral levels did not reach an ‘infective dose’
Minnesota
Increasing cases in young adults in June
Protests or bars?
Limited data
Andrew Cuomo, dedicated 15 testing sites, data ‘not yet available’
Many protesters were young adults, less likely to be symptomatic
City officials have instructed contact tracers not to ask new Covid-19 patients if they attended protests
“Like most every other aspect of this pandemic the most predictable thing is the unpredictability,” (Professor Markel, historian and physician, University of Michigan)
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