Just a month ago, many Americans believed that the worst was over in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, over the last few weeks, major infection surges in some of the country’s most populous states have proved that we are just getting started. And, according to one of the nation’s top infectious disease experts, the potential result could be “apocalyptic.”
The three most populous states in the country—Texas, Florida, and California—home to more than 27.4% of the population are experiencing record breaking cases of the highly infectious and potentially deadly virus. CNN reports that Florida and Texas topped 5,000 new COVID-19 cases the prior day, while California recorded more than 7,000.
Experts are particularly concerned about the Lone Star state, specifically the Houston metro area. The city, which recently saw an explosion of coronavirus cases, is on track to become the new epicenter of the virus in the United States.
Other cities— including Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio—are also experiencing major surges, which could result in an epic number of deaths, Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Could Be “Apocalyptic”
“The big metro areas seem to be rising very quickly and some of the models are on the verge of being apocalyptic,” Dr. Hotez revealed, pointing to models he posted on his Twitter account demonstrating that Houston’s daily cases could quadruple by July 4, unless serious actions are taken.
“That is really worrisome and as those numbers rise, we’re seeing commensurate increases in the number of hospitalizations and ICU admissions,” he said. “You get to the point where you overwhelm ICUs and that’s when the mortality goes up.”
On Twitter, he also added that time is of the essence. “Unless we intervene by the weekend, we are potentially facing a humanitarian catastrophe over the summer,” he tweeted in one thread about the current situation in Texas.
More and More States Seeing Cases Rise
Texas, California, and Florida aren’t the only states where the coronavirus curve is on a disturbing trend upward. At least 26 states—Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming—experienced a spike of cases compared to the previous week, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
It may rise some, but we need to be able to live and go about our business. Take precautions, exercise good hygiene and practice social distancing, but we only have a short time on this earth and to be mandated to be quarantined for weeks and/or months is hard financially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This virus, along with the flu, etc. will always be around us from here on out.
On to the next crises! Prayers for President Trump and all our other leaders to follow the will of God.
Mmmmm!! Those are all states that had protestors. Just saying
Cases are milder and deaths are now less or rare.
In areas with mandatory masks, check that your conceal carry permit is still applicable. The general law here is that it is illegal to carry a weapon while wearing a. mask. Only one sheriff has waved that.
As long as animals caring virus’s to humans are abused and eaten, more and more virus’s coming!! Stop eating animals!!
A totally independent study needs to be undertaken to see who is recording these numbers, who is being counted among them and where, and who has pre-existing conditions and their prognoses.
As far as I can see, all that is happening is that largely Leftist agencies are inventing a swarm of new fake cases in their own Democrat as well as Republican states to keep the population menaced with fear and indoors, to promore panic and mail-in voting, and to prevent crowd-assembly, July 4th celebrations and Trump rallies.
You can’t trust anything Fauci has a hand in. He’s still a Nobama holdover and he sent $3.7M to the Wuhan lab on Nobama’s behalf.
Gates and Soros funded Wuhan too, after the facility was re-established and reinvigorated in China when Obama made a big deal out of “…shutting-down US bio-research” at home. Fauci, Gates, Nobama, WHO’s Tedros and Soros are all up to their filthy armpits in all of this.
I’d trust breast-feeding a rattlesnake before I trusted these subversive bits of sewer-scum!
Seems like as soon as the economy gets going the virus reappears i guess the riots are not doing enough and now the have the bounty story this will go on till after November unless they do not win then things will get worse they will send the black plauge called BLM back out with Antifa to do more damage so next time be ready to take them out