WHO records new single-day high in global coronavirus cases

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Source: the hill




By Justin Wise - 07/05/20 12:54 PM EDT




The World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 210,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus around the world on Saturday, marking a new high in infections over a 24-hour period.

Data from the agency showed that 211,411 cases of the virus were confirmed worldwide, representing a 20 percent increase from the previous day. The previous high in single-day infections was reported on June 28, when roughly 190,000 cases of the virus were confirmed globally.

As of Sunday, health officials had reported more than 11 million cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and roughly 530,000 deaths stemming from it worldwide, according to a Johns Hopkins University database.
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The country reported more than 50,000 cases of the virus in a single day for the first time last Wednesday. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 57,718 new cases and 661 new deaths were reported on Saturday. Florida alone reported more than 11,000 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, a new record for the state...........................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/505927-who-records-new-high-in-global-coronavirus-cases

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1. Yee-haw! Party time! Let's open up them bars and nightclubs!!111!! Yee-haw!!!11!!

[BigmanPigman]

2. WHO has lost a lot of credibility in my book...

"The World Health Organization has long held that the coronavirus is spread primarily by large respiratory droplets that, once expelled by infected people in coughs and sneezes, fall quickly to the floor.


But in an open letter to the W.H.O., 239 scientists in 32 countries have outlined the evidence showing that smaller particles can infect people, and are calling for the agency to revise its recommendations. The researchers plan to publish their letter in a scientific journal next week.

Even in its latest update on the coronavirus, released June 29, the W.H.O. said airborne transmission of the virus is possible only after medical procedures that produce aerosols, or droplets smaller than 5 microns. (A micron is equal to one millionth of a meter)."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-one-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html#click=https://t.co/qYAkiGVthq

GREAT video of what N95 masks do...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016260983

[LisaL]

4. One of the WHO's spokes people also claimed all of the sudden that asymptomatic

persons are not infectious or not highly infectious (which everybody agrees is not accurate).
I don't know what the deal is either.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Thank God

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