Huge Covid Surge Ahead of Trump Campaign Visit
Arizona reports Record Single-Day Increase in Coronavirus Cases ahead of Trump’s visit.
- The Arizona Department of Health reported nearly 3,600 additional Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, another record in additional daily cases, ahead of President Donald Trump’s scheduled appearances.
- Arizona is averaging about 2,500 daily new cases as of Monday, which is about a 94% increase since one week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.
- The increase in cases and hospitalizations comes as Trump travels to the state’s border and to Phoenix, where he’s scheduled to attend a campaign rally at a local church.
“We are actually seeing the fastest rate of growth among our young people in the community, and here it is, a rally specifically focused on that demographic,” Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, a Democrat, told CNN on Sunday. “Public health professionals in Phoenix are trying to tell young people to take this seriously.”
Hospital Beds and Cases
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Inpatient beds, ICU beds and ventilators in use for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients all hit their highest-ever numbers Monday, according to Tuesday’s report. Emergency department visits tied the previous high from Sunday, with more than 1,200.
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During the past three weeks, cases increased by 174% and tests increased by just 85%, suggesting spikes in cases are due more to increased community spread than to increased testing.
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More than 3,000 new cases have been reported on three of the past five days, more than 2,000 new cases have been reported on each of the past six days, and more than 1,000 new cases have been reported on each of the past 14 days, according to state data.
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The highest jump came in inpatient hospital beds, with 2,136 beds occupied by suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients Monday, compared with 1,992 Sunday.
The above points from Arizona Central
Come Hell, High Water, or Covid
The campaign must go on, hell, high water, or Covid.
Trump has put his reelection campaign ahead of national health concerns.
This is at best highly irresponsible, and in a packed church no les
Mish
Trump’s base has a ton of 65+ Covid susceptible voters. I wonder what they are thinking?
Have you seen interviews with any of them? I would guess the answer to your question is … nothing.
So Trump is evil for campaigning but no mention of the Democratic parties support of Domestic Terrorism by people that want to destroy our country…. No bias there…
Let’s not get caught up in the inane focus only on cumulative COVID-19 cases. These numbers can never go down as they are cumulative. The good news – take a look at trends in COVID 19 fatalities. What, spiking incidence in CA, FLA and other states means a spike in fatalities? Maybe not so much, depending on how many 70 and greater year olds are becoming infected. If new incidence is shifted to mobile, beach going younger folks, don’t expect many of these folks to die.
RE: “If new incidence is shifted to mobile, beach going younger folks, don’t expect many of these folks to die.”
But based on knowledge of impacts to survivors, expect some percentage (how large is the key) of those folks to find their health impaired in various ways for life.
As someone else said, if COVID-19 left horrible scarring on all who contracted it, even if that was the only post-survival impact, all of the attitudes would be vastly different.
It’s not COVID, but the body’s response to it. If you have data on COVID morbidity versus age, please post it. Still lots to learn.
Trump had any brains he’d start cutting some more $1200 checks.it would at least give him a fighting chance,hell they’re printing trillions anyway,instead of pumpin all of it into Wall Street (16 trillion since November)show Main Street some love.
The spending has to stop. Trump has already cemented his legacy as one of the worst Presidents of all time, based on the amount the National Debt rose during his term. Republicans and Democrats each want to prove they can spend more than the other.
“If BLM, Obama & Al Sharpton can have a rally in Chicago to protest the 102 shootings and 14 murders last weekend why can’t Trump have a campaign rally in AZ.?Oh wait…”
Stop the stupidity
Justifying inappropriate behavior by citing some else’s inappropriate behavior is illogical.
For all who didn’t get it, THERE IS NO RALLY TO PROTEST THE MASS MURDER HAPPENING IN CHICAGO..YEAR AFTER YEAR. Thats the point. But Soooo many people are “concerned” about an election rally being held by the president because of the CCP virus, the one that has caused the piles of bodies you see in the streets. NOT!
Hmmm…
“But Soooo many people are “concerned” about an election rally being held by the president” — Yes. Yes they are because this is a risk that seems trivially easy to control/avoid. The fact that our president will not do anything to avoid that risk (or even mitigate it) is the story here.
“because of the CCP virus” — Nice – get that racist rant in there, as well. At least use ‘Wuhan’ because that is actually descriptive of the recognized origin location. That way it would just tag you as an informed racist moron.
“caused the piles of bodies you see in the streets. NOT!” — Actually it did. Didn’t you see the stories from New York in which they were storing bodies in refrigerated trucks outside the hospitals?
is spanish flu racist, too? how about italian marble? italian leather? or french wine? why so overly sensitive?
This virus did come from a CCP controlled lab, everything in china is controlled by the CCP. Thats why I call it the CCP virus and not the Chinese virus because that WOULD be racist.
The CCP virus has apparently lost its teeth, its something like 1% or less fatality rate for people under 70. the numbers vary depending on the source but its obvious at this point its not going to kill 1 or 5% of humanity.
Life is going to go on whether you approve or not.
And apparently so will the terror and murder in Chicago.
Mish, I haven’t noticed you criticizing BLM, Antifa, or anyone else for the behavior they have been encouraging. But, any chance you get to criticize President Trump, you’re on it. I’ve been reading your columns for years, but here lately I’ve been debating calling it quits.
And he won’t. Being “cancelled” or “delisted” by google is life changing. You can’t blame someone for avoiding that.
Hope you check in once in while there’s still some good info here.
I agree with you. Mish now has an agenda and he has “woke” up. Silence on Antifa, Chaz community, etc. No mention of Biden and his son involvement with Ukrainian gas connection. Media is complicit with Biden’s corruption. There will be three debates from what I’ve read, and Trump will smoke Biden.
Quite interesting how one wrong seems to justify another
“Here we go again with Covid is going to kill us all. “
Warning: Stop the damn exaggerations.
No one said Covid is going to kill us all.
I will let this slide, one more time, and this is that one time.
Mish, when are you going to stop the exaggerations on covid?
Trump cares about only 2 people in his life: himself and his reflection in the mirror.
Ok perhaps Jack Dorsey as well.
Has tRump ever cared about the life and death of any people, american or non-american?
Hmmmm… I was about to suggest that he probably cares about his family, but then recalled the number of wives he cheated on. So the answer is probably no.
he cares about blue collar american workers. that’s why he lowered the unemployment rate to record lows.
Here we go again with Covid is going to kill us all. The attached chart is the weekly deaths in Arizona for the past two years. I guess back in January of 2018 there must have been people turned away from the hospital because of the shortage of beds back then. Before anyone says that the CDC will add to the numbers as this is a moving chart, you are correct to a point. The data they publish now is two weeks behind where a month ago they updated on a weekly basis. I guess someone didn’t like charts showing a decrease so now they delay two weeks. With that I have noticed that the last data point will go higher the following week but you can bank on the fact the second to last will not move the needle very much at all. So as of three weeks ago the weekly deaths are now at about average for the past two years.
Someone mentioned earlier that when this all started, we were trying to flatten the curve. So I assume that the negative comments are from people who want to flatten the curve for the rest of our natural lives as we all know the FACT is we most likely will never find a cure in the form of a vaccine.
This Covid-19 virus is A LITTLE worse than a bad flu season. As for Arizona, not even close.
you are clearly average, joe
I can tell you put allen of thought into that reply
Lots of words. Looks like since Dear Leader caused a failure that will go down as the greatest public policy disasters in modern history and one that that was caused by personal incompetence, you will need lots and lots of words. Your graph is not informative to show that it is just the flu because the number of normal deaths were down because car accidents and the like were down during that time period because of stay at home orders… which also kept the disease at bay. This disease is more transmissible and at least 20x more deadly than the flu and this current spike will not show its death toll until a couple of weeks out… so your pretty picture actually shows that the stay at home orders saved lives and was a good choice. And it shows that what you are actually saying is that not all lives matter.
I choose to look at all deaths because of the misrepresentation of what an actual death is when it comes to Covid-19. There are many instances both ways as to counts being skewed so I don’t care to look at what someone calls a Covid death. I’d rather look at the big picture. As you pointed out, car accidents were down and even though I can’t find any specific data on it, I agree. Please keep in mind that everyone didn’t stop driving in mid-March. What you fail to point out is suicides, alcohol and drug overdoses have dramatically increased. What about people who needed elective surgeries or testing for heart disease and cancer which make up the top two causes of death in this country and couldn’t. It is a known fact that unemployment also contributes to increased suicides and domestic violence situations that go bad. Do those lives matter?
Well, I did my research. I found an article that stated auto accident fatalities were down in March 8% from the previous year. As a side note, fatal accidents per mile were up 14% as a result. In 2018 there were 36,560 total fatalities connected with a motor vehicle and not individual accidents in the US. Assuming that Arizona is an average population state and on a weekly basis would give you an average number of 16 auto fatalities per week. An 8% drop rounding up would mean the lockdowns saved 2 per week in the state of Arizona. So add 2 deaths per week to my “pretty picture” to give you a more accurate number in line with your thinking. Lots of assumption but I think you get the rough idea that it didn’t move the needle much.
“Here we go again with Covid is going to kill us all. “
Warning: Stop the damn exaggerations.
No one said Covid is going to kill us all.
I will let this slide, one more time, and this is that one time.
The CDC numbers are difficult to use. Numbers for each will will continue to grow over time for 52 weeks. Thus, only the numbers prior to June 24, 2019 are final. All numbers from periods after that will end ups being larger than they are now. How much larger? No way to know, but I presume that the more recent the numbers, the more adjustments will take place.
I have been monitoring the CDC numbers on a weekly basis since the end of February. You are correct regarding the most recent weeks move substantially compared to the previous period. So much so the CDC about a month ago stopped giving out the two previous weeks numbers for this same reason I presume. As I said above, the last data point will move enough the following week to make a difference and that is why I said to disregard it. From my observations, data that is one month old will change very little by adding a few more here and there.
If BLM, Obama & Al Sharpton can have a rally in Chicago to protest the 102 shootings and 14 murders last weekend why can’t Trump have a campaign rally in AZ.?
Oh wait…/s
I think that is a fair question
The answer of course is that they are equally ill advised. Justifying inappropriate behavior by citing some else’s inappropriate behavior is illogical.
The average person will innately seek logical consistency. This was my city just a couple of weeks ago. I find it terrifying that such a mass of humans was allowed to convene for this planned event and no politician spoke up against it or made any effort to stop it or enforce social distancing.
And now here we are in a reality where people no longer believe politicians who say it’s dangerous to get a haircut or go for a jog on the beach. You cannot enforce cognitively dissonant “rules for thee but not for me”. The leaders hoping to bring back lockdowns lost all credibility when they allowed barbarian mobs to take over the streets and masses of angry protestors to assemble shoulder to shoulder mindlessly shouting slogans in each others faces.
By the way, I have been watching journalist Michael Tracey interview black people who live in the neighborhoods that were looted and destroyed during the riots and guess what? They wish Donald Trump had called in the military and put a stop to it. They witnessed people injured and killed. Their neighborhoods are now in ruin. Cloistered white liberals can sit back and cry about mean old orange man, but the black and brown people who actually now have to live with the consequences of irresponsible inaction by local authorities believe they could have been helped.
it’s not inappropriate so there’s nothing to justify.
This may come as a shock to those people, but Black Lives don’t Matter to the coronavirus….
Donnie Fatso’s visit will not be irresponsible if some people at the event contract the “Kung Flu” and subsequently die.
I am just saying.
If Trumptards were the only fatalities I would be fine with that. The problem is containment.
Proclamation Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak
Forget investing in any new student housing any time soon that market is done.