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The United States set a new record for reported cases this week, breaking 500,000 for the first time in the pandemic as the third surge continued to build across nearly every state in the country.

Today, the country recorded 88,452 new cases of COVID-19, its highest single-day total since the pandemic began. Over the past two weeks, 25 states have set a new record for cases in the past two weeks, including 17 states with record highs since last Wednesday.

The country reported a record number of tests, at 8.2 million, but case growth (24 percent) far outpaced test growth (9 percent), as we explained earlier this week. That’s also true for the entire month of October: Forty-seven of the 50 states, along with the District of Columbia, have seen cases rise faster than reported tests since October 1.

These cases are translating into higher numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations in many states in every region of the country. All but 11 states saw a rise in people hospitalized this week, the largest increases occurring in the upper Midwest and Texas. Although we are not yet close to the hospitalization peaks of almost 60,000 that we observed in the spring and summer, the average number of people hospitalized this week rose to 42,621, a very substantial increase from the lows of about 30,000 that we saw just a month ago.
 
Testosterone in COVID-19 - Foe, Friend or Fatal Victim?

The evidence derived from observational studies suggests male gender, diabetes and central obesity to be risk factors associated with an increased COVID-19-related case fatality. The precise pathophysiology behind this gender difference in mortality outcomes remains unclear at this stage, although it is worth exploring a possible role of testosterone as one of the contributory factors.

The observed role of androgens in transcription of transmembrane protease serine-2, which facilitates COVID-19 anchoring to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 cell surface receptors, seems to suggest that higher testosterone levels might be detrimental for outcomes. On the other hand, men with type 2 diabetes mellitus and central obesity have an increased prevalence of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, with inhibition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion induced by inflammatory cytokines being one of the postulated mechanisms.

The increased COVID-19 case fatality in this cohort might perhaps reflect an underlying pro-inflammatory state, with low testosterone levels being either a surrogate marker of a poor metabolic state or playing a more active role in propagation of inflammation and thrombosis.

Kalra S, Bhattacharya S, Kalhan A. Testosterone in COVID-19 - Foe, Friend or Fatal Victim? Eur Endocrinol. 2020 Oct;16(2):88-91. doi: 10.17925/EE.2020.16.2.88. Epub 2020 Oct 6. PMID: 33117437; PMCID: PMC7572157. Testosterone in COVID-19 – Foe, Friend or Fatal Victim? – touchENDOCRINOLOGY
 


(Reuters) - The United States set a new all-time high for coronavirus cases confirmed in a single 24-hour period on Friday, reporting just over 100,000 new infections to surpass the record total of 91,000 posted a day earlier, according to a Reuters tally.

The daily caseload of 100,233 is also a world record for the global pandemic, surpassing the 97,894 cases reported by India on a single day in September.

Five times over past ten days, the United States has exceeded its previous single-day record of 77,299 cases registered in July. The number of daily infections reported during past two days indicates that the nation is now reporting more than one new case every second.
 
Michael Scally MD said:


(Reuters) - The United States set a new all-time high for coronavirus cases confirmed in a single 24-hour period on Friday, reporting just over 100,000 new infections to surpass the record total of 91,000 posted a day earlier, according to a Reuters tally.

The daily caseload of 100,233 is also a world record for the global pandemic, surpassing the 97,894 cases reported by India on a single day in September.

Five times over past ten days, the United States has exceeded its previous single-day record of 77,299 cases registered in July. The number of daily infections reported during past two days indicates that the nation is now reporting more than one new case every second.
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And yet deaths remain low and hospitals are underwhelmed with cases. Quit the fear mongering.
 


Coronavirus infections soared this week to record levels, hospitalizations are up in almost every state, and now — predictably, but slowly — deaths are rising, too.

The nation passed another milestone Friday with 9 million confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, including more than 98,000 new cases, a daily record. More than 1,000 deaths in the United States from the novel coronavirus were reported each day Wednesday and Thursday, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post, continuing an upward trend that began two weeks ago.

All signs indicate that this isn’t a blip but rather a reflection of a massive surge in infections that, without a dramatic effort to reverse the trend, will drive up the death toll for weeks to come. At least 229,000 people in the United States have died of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
 
Michael Scally MD said:


Coronavirus infections soared this week to record levels, hospitalizations are up in almost every state, and now — predictably, but slowly — deaths are rising, too.

The nation passed another milestone Friday with 9 million confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, including more than 98,000 new cases, a daily record. More than 1,000 deaths in the United States from the novel coronavirus were reported each day Wednesday and Thursday, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post, continuing an upward trend that began two weeks ago.

All signs indicate that this isn’t a blip but rather a reflection of a massive surge in infections that, without a dramatic effort to reverse the trend, will drive up the death toll for weeks to come. At least 229,000 people in the United States have died of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
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Riiiiight. The evidence says that only cases are rising. I have yet to see a massive death toll or hospitalization rate that qualifies this as a pandemic. Wake up.

It’s amazing that our great president even set up makeshift military hospitals and yet NONE of them were ever used.
 
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EVERY SECOND you are reading this, another American is infected with the coronavirus. Every 107 seconds , someone in the United States is dying. Once again, under the feeble stewardship of President Trump, the nation is plunging into an abyss of unnecessary suffering and loss. Election or not, strong measures are required now to brake the virus from killing an additional 100,000 people or more in the next few months.

In nearly all 50 states, plus D.C., new covid-19 cases are increasing; test positivity rates are above 5 percent in more than 30 of them. Hospitalization has jumped nearly 58 percent since Sept. 19. The surge in new cases may soon top 100,000 a day. Hospitals are nearing capacity in some cities; health-care workers and first responders are exhausted.

This is not a situation in which diagnostic testing, contact tracing and isolation can contain the virus; rather, this is an out-of-control wildfire, a five-alarm emergency. Selective and temporary but severe restrictions will be necessary to build firewalls. The word “lockdown” evokes impatience, frustration and fatigue. Face masks have been politicized. But to be realistic, these are the tools at hand that work, until an effective vaccine or drug therapy is widely available.

There is no other answer. The virus is transmitted person to person in close contact and more easily in enclosed spaces and when people are talking, eating, drinking, shouting and singing. Either a determined battle is waged now — meaning in November and not January or February — or the virus will spread exponentially. European leaders, also confronting a surge, are showing they understand the imperative of a strong and rapid response, imposing closures and curfews. These are not popular, but they are essential.

In this country, a national mandate to wear masks would be a good start, and it would be even better if every single governor and mayor embraced them, and every single citizen. Tired as people may be, the pandemic emergency is growing worse, and that means we must refrain from group social events, including weddings, bars, indoor restaurants and other gatherings, obey social distancing rules and maintain good personal hygiene. Even the coming Thanksgiving, a cherished family holiday, poses a very real danger of becoming a superspreader event. Don’t risk it. ...
 
I remember even as a kid wondering at the stupidity of people. One of the examples that sticks in my mind is when I learnt what they did a few hundred years ago to women accused of being a witch.

Basically they drowned them and if they floated it proved they were a witch. They never floated. If they drowned they were innocent. Now if you don't realise how insanely stupid this is, then you can stop reading.

What I find even more amazing than the level of stupidity created by fear that resulted in this test being widely accepted in those days is that we are doing the exact same thing today.

The test for Covid-19 is equally stupid. If you don't know that, then you would have been drowning witches. The virus that they allege causes Covid-19 is Sars Cov 2 and the test doesn't test for it. Instead it tests for coronavirus a massive alleged family of viruses that are in every single human being and the only difference is quantity at any given moment . Yup it's that dumb.
 
Michael Scally MD said:


EVERY SECOND you are reading this, another American is infected with the coronavirus. Every 107 seconds , someone in the United States is dying. Once again, under the feeble stewardship of President Trump, the nation is plunging into an abyss of unnecessary suffering and loss. Election or not, strong measures are required now to brake the virus from killing an additional 100,000 people or more in the next few months.

In nearly all 50 states, plus D.C., new covid-19 cases are increasing; test positivity rates are above 5 percent in more than 30 of them. Hospitalization has jumped nearly 58 percent since Sept. 19. The surge in new cases may soon top 100,000 a day. Hospitals are nearing capacity in some cities; health-care workers and first responders are exhausted.

This is not a situation in which diagnostic testing, contact tracing and isolation can contain the virus; rather, this is an out-of-control wildfire, a five-alarm emergency. Selective and temporary but severe restrictions will be necessary to build firewalls. The word “lockdown” evokes impatience, frustration and fatigue. Face masks have been politicized. But to be realistic, these are the tools at hand that work, until an effective vaccine or drug therapy is widely available.

There is no other answer. The virus is transmitted person to person in close contact and more easily in enclosed spaces and when people are talking, eating, drinking, shouting and singing. Either a determined battle is waged now — meaning in November and not January or February — or the virus will spread exponentially. European leaders, also confronting a surge, are showing they understand the imperative of a strong and rapid response, imposing closures and curfews. These are not popular, but they are essential.

In this country, a national mandate to wear masks would be a good start, and it would be even better if every single governor and mayor embraced them, and every single citizen. Tired as people may be, the pandemic emergency is growing worse, and that means we must refrain from group social events, including weddings, bars, indoor restaurants and other gatherings, obey social distancing rules and maintain good personal hygiene. Even the coming Thanksgiving, a cherished family holiday, poses a very real danger of becoming a superspreader event. Don’t risk it. ...
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See my post below. This is nothing more than modern day witch hunting.
 
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