New York Times stuff about Idiot America's coronavirus problem. They had some stuff about Trump but I'm not interested. Trump is on the way out. Good riddance. What a stupid fucking asshole.

New York Times

August 2, 2020

1. New coronavirus cases are picking up at a dangerous pace in much of the Midwest and in areas that had seen apparent progress.

The seven-day average for new infections is hovering around 65,000 for two weeks in what amounts to a second wave of cases. The U.S. recorded more than 1.9 million new infections in July, nearly 42 percent of the more than 4.5 million cases reported nationwide since the pandemic began and more than double the number documented in any other month, according to a Times database.

States like California, which became the first in the U.S. to report more than 500,000 coronavirus cases, and Mississippi and Florida thought they had already seen the worst of it, only to find themselves on a frustrating seesaw. Above, a testing center in Los Angeles.

And yet rapid testing, which many health officials say is critical to containing the virus, remains an obstacle. Dr. Anthony Fauci told lawmakers on Friday that the U.S. would most likely have a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020 or early in 2021.

2. The first school districts in the U.S. reopened their doors this week. Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana, above, had to quarantine students within hours.

In most of the country, schools that reopen classrooms will quickly face the question of what to do when students test positive. To deal with that likelihood, many schools and some states have enacted contact tracing and quarantine protocols, with differing thresholds at which they would close classrooms or buildings.

A new report about a coronavirus outbreak at a sleep-away camp in Georgia provides fresh reasons for concern. Of the 600 campers and staff members, nearly half became infected within a week of orientation. The camp took precautions but did not require campers to wear masks. Singing and cheering may have helped spread the virus.

3. Florida, already reeling from the virus, faces a new threat from Isaias.

The tropical storm is expected to be upgraded to a hurricane again after a downgrade late Saturday and may hit Florida’s coastline. The storm raked parts of Puerto Rico — killing one woman — and the Dominican Republic before battering the Bahamas early Saturday. Above, Lake Worth, Fla.

And we’re only in the very beginning of hurricane season. Emergency management officials have drawn up new and special plans to deal with people who are fleeing or have been displaced by storms.

Up the coast, officials in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina were closely monitoring the storm and warned that hospitals could be strained beyond capacity with a flood of new patients.