I really think we're gonna start seeing states forced to go into partial lockdowns like Oregon, if not full lockdowns, as cases continue to skyrocket over the next several weeks. It's clear that telling people to wear masks & asking them to social distance isn't getting it done enough. MA is hitting 11% and almost 3,000 cases daily now. Other states are literally seeing 90%+ increases in cases over the past couple of weeks with 0 sign that Thanksgiving won't exacerbate things.
More than 1 in every 400 people tested positive in the past week, and infections and hospitalizations have hit record levels across the country. Rising deaths have pushed even some reluctant governors to issue mask mandates and to limit gatherings.
www.nytimes.com
"And in Missouri — which announced
7,164 new cases on Saturday, the state’s third single-day record in a row, along with 11 deaths and more than 2,400 hospitalizations — health care workers asked government officials to enact more restrictions...
With more than 1,017,000 cases added since Nov. 7 — the first time that more than a million cases were reported in a seven-day period — that means that roughly one in every 323 people in the United States were reported to have tested positive in the last week.
On Saturday, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana, Utah, Montana, and Alaska all set single-day records for new cases."