Fauci: Situation May Get Out Of Control
Ya think we opened back up too soon?
"Hospitals across the Sun Belt continue to be inundated with coronavirus patients, with Arizona reaching 89 percent capacity for intensive care unit beds on Monday, as Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas also reported unprecedented numbers of hospitalizations. For the 28th day in a row, the country’s rolling seven-day average of daily new cases shattered all previous records, although the number of deaths has remained relatively stable."
"The United States is “still knee deep in the first wave” of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Monday. Unlike Europe, “we never came down to baseline and now are surging back up.”"
"Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, has been placed under a six-week lockdown amid an explosion of new infections despite earlier successes in containing the virus. Victoria state has also been sealed off from the rest of the country. Worldwide, more than 11.6 million coronavirus cases have been reported.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday evening that he had been tested for the coronavirus and was awaiting the results. Earlier in the day, CNN Brazil reported that Bolsonaro was experiencing symptoms often linked to the coronavirus, including a 100-degree fever.
Millions of dollars of relief funds for small businesses went to chains owned by large investment firms, new data shows. At least seven members of Congress or their spouses also received major loans, as did tens of thousands of companies that made no promises to rehire workers or create new jobs and a law firm that has represented President Trump.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), 86, said he plans to skip the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month “because of the virus situation.” The convention’s host committee said Monday that attendees will be tested for the coronavirus on a daily basis but has yet to provide details about the logistics."
Live updates: Coronavirus hospitalizations soar as Fauci warns U.S. is ‘still knee deep in the first wave’
We all wanted this thing to be gone right away but sometimes what we want to see and what we actually see are two different things.
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