Covid-19 top stories for Friday, June 19, 2020
Let's spread more facts and science please. It's not all politics.
Data from Minneapolis suggests that the protests against police violence and the murder of George Floyd may not be triggering a spike in new COVID-19 cases.
The president’s continued insistence that COVID-19 is somehow no longer an issue is already influencing mitigation strategies by state and local governments — but even more importantly, by individuals. Public health experts say this inevitably means that the consequences of COVID-19 will impact the United States longer than other nations.
In an interview Thursday, President Trump said it directly: some people wear masks to indicate they don’t like President Trump. And on Friday, he attacked comments from the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci over concerns Fauci expressed about having football fans attending games this Fall.
How not to mitigate an infectious disease outbreak: Corrections officials in California transferred 120 inmates from a prison where COVID-19 had started to spread to San Quentin State Prison - and saw the number of COVID-19 infections grow from 0 to 80 in less than three weeks. The chart below from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows San Quentin COVID-19 cases.
Have a good weekend. Please stay safe - keep your distance and cover your face whenever you are near others.
