Dear Reader:

Worldometer (august 13): Almost 21 million cases and over 750 thousand deaths worldwide. Almost 5.4 million cases and almost 170 thousand deaths in the U.S., over 54 thousand new cases and 1,386 new deaths yesterday.

This is the breakdown of new deaths in 25 of the 50 U.S. states yesterday (Aug 12) in descending order:  225 in Texas,   212 in Florida,  160 in California, 148 in Arizona, 105 in Georgia,  63 in North Carolina, 48 in Louisiana, 46 in South Carolina,  45 in Mississippi, 35 in Alabama, 28 in Ohio, 18 in Tennessee,  17  in New York, 17 in Indiana, 15  in Illinois, 13 in Iowa,13 in Oklahoma,  11 in New Jersey, 8 in Virginia, 8in Maryland, 7 in Michigan, 5 in Washington, 5 in Wisconsin, 4 in Hawaii, 0 in Vermont and Wyoming.

On the same day, Aug 12, Zero new deaths were recorded in China, Spain, Sweden, 6 in Belgium, 7 in Japan, 8 in Germany, 10 in Italy, 15 in Canada, 17 in France, 20  in the UK, and 21 in Australia.

Politico, Trump turns toward a third season of coronavirus (Aug 13): “As the crippling crisis turns toward a third season, an alternate reality is taking shape inside the White House even in the face of spiking case counts, long lags in test processing and a Covid-19 death toll that regularly tops 1,000 Americans a day…

“One former senior administration official said the White House is attempting to convey the perception of control.. A key goal is to demonstrate they’re once again on top  of Americans’ No. 1 concern, after first pushing states to reopen before they met the government’s own benchmarks and then downplaying the worsening spread of the virus for months.. The White House’s own rosy portrait of its response and the president’s upbeat projections- such as his repeated insistence that the virus will ‘go away’- contrasts with the continued high caseloads in states such as Texas, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Maryland…

“Trump is heading into fall and winter months that could prove even more perilous for the  nation, with the spread of Covid-19 coinciding with the flu season- a dangerous combination public health officials have long been dreading. ‘The fall could be incredibly gruesome,’ said Yale School of Medicine epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, adding that the Trump administration largely squandered the summer months, leaving the nation no better protected than it was in June.”

anita

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