The coronavirus outbreak in Arizona is going very badly

[Mike 03]

Business Insider
Isaac Scher 38 minutes ago

Excerpt:

"It's spreading like wildfire," Rep. Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat, said on social media Sunday. "Arizona is the new national hotspot for COVID-19 with more than 4,400 new cases in just the last 72 hours. Per capita, Arizona's infection rate is now more than three times higher than New York state."

By Sunday, Arizona's infection rate reached 60.5 per 100,000 people, compared to New York's 12.5 per 100,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The Grand Canyon State has more than 37,500 cases as of Sunday.

Speaking last week, Will Humble, the former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said the surge in new cases was "definitely related" to the lifted stay-at-home order. While the order was still in place, around 5% of statewide COVID-19 tests were positive. By early June, the rate more than doubled to 12%. The state doesn't require people to wear masks.

"This is not an abstract number of cases," Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told NPR. "We're seeing people pile into intensive care units," which the largest hospital in the state, Banner Health, echoed last week in a statement.

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[Blues Heron]

1. Conservatives are just plain stupid motherfuckers

In this case stupid=death

[at140]

2. Arizona has 3 times seniors than NY per capita

And seniors are notorious for not washing hands often. My mother-in-law is in a senior-assisted-care-facility in Arizona.
The residents in her facility do not get soap in bathrooms because some of them are senile and eat the soap.
The residents are given a bath by a staff member. Not washing hands is the main reason covid-19 spreads.

So if one of the workers or visitor-relative is infected, it is going spread like wild fire.
Just like in Seattle before.

[CrispyQ]

3. This makes me so sad.

And mad. Mad at people who took the whole thing lightly, starting at the top.

[soothsayer]

4. The outbreak is going well

The containment is going badly.

Are they planning to deal with it?

[in2herbs]

6. Actually, the Gov laid out his plan the other day to deal with it. He essentailly said that

the economy is important even though some will die.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Ingnorance and

Attitudes are hard to change. Certain annual rights of Spring are hard to change for some White folks living here in the South West.

Appears the first major White Peoples Cultural event of Family Outings has come back to haunt in Spades. Yupper,the Camping Trip with the whole family coming for a big time Cook Out and Photo Op .

[louis-t]

7. Gee, I thought hot weather gets rid of the virus.

Trumpy sez so. AZ must be having a cold spell.