Holy f**king sh*t ... Iowa reports 2,007 new cases in one day

[UpInArms]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Rank ... 27
Iowa
Total cases .... 61,808
New cases .....+2,007
Total deaths ... 1,091
New deaths ..........+7

[Iliyah]

1. Could be more . .

The governor like so many red states are covering up the actual numbers in infection and deaths. . .

[SheltieLover]

4. Likely, IMO!

Sturgis event?

[rurallib]

2. Reality finally comes to Iowa reporting.

[berni_mccoy]

3. Strugis flow through no doubt

[DonaldsRump]

6. Exactly my immediate reaction

Great thing about DU....so many like-minded friends. This has been my key port of sanity since 2016!

[Sherman A1]

15. My thought as well

unfortunate but hardly unexpected.

[JT45242]

5. U of Iowa students a TON of that

They cameback early, crowded into bars without masks and Johnson county is lighting up like a Christmas tree.

Iowa City Schools actually got Governor Kimmy to OK all online schools since the positivity rate in the county was over 20%.

And it will get worse...actually saw on Facebook that one parent was upset because "Elementary kids don't interact with the college students."

Seriously, this parent does not have enough scientific or medical literacy to understand community spread. People tried to explain to this woman that -- grocery workers do, restaurant workers do, doctors and nurses do,etc. and they might interact with you or your child putting you at risk.

Seriously...it is going to get a lot worse. Every state that had someone in leadership who was willing to be associated with the RNC convention and hate fest is going to see exploding cases between now and January when the grown ups can take over and try to fix this mess.

[suegeo]

16. The New York Times claims Ames and Iowa City have the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country

[link:kcci.com/article/nyt-lists-ames-as-largest-covid-19-outbreak-in-us-in-relation-to-population-size/33844104|]

The New York Times claims Ames and Iowa City have the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country as of this weekend.

According to an article by the New York Times, Ames is listed No. 1 for the most cases in relation to their population in the past two weeks. Ames has had 956 COVID-19 cases with 97,117 residents. Iowa City is listed at No. 3 with 1,489 cases in the past two weeks and 173,105 residents.

[gristy]

7. I'm seeing different numbers at that link

Iowa
Total cases .... 59,801
New cases .....+1,566
Total deaths ... 1,084
New deaths ..........+13

On the "Yesterday" tab

[Blues Heron]

8. Not a very hygenically minded populace out there apparently

fucking spreaders. What - are they stupid?

[Indykatie]

9. ????? Iowa is Showing 1566 New Cases Not 2007 at the Worldmeters Site.

Did they change the number since you looked?

[UpInArms]

11. Check the "Now" statistics

Those are yesterday’s numbers

[Squinch]

10. My site shows 1566. But still, your point stands.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UrAsc3woy1-Cxg-XQkaqIa1AryvxHuYEpS_dpm_8GA0/edit#gid=1238014818

[ramblin_dave]

13. That spreadsheet is dated Aug 27, today's totals are here...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Squinch]

14. Oh, God! I stand corrected. So that's 1566 yesterday and 2114 today (and apparently

rising fast still!) today!


If that's what the "drive throughs" from Sturgis did, imagine what last night's mask-less lie fest is going to do!

[Squinch]

12. Remember when the NY "cases per capita" number was jaw dropping? Now 6 states have

exceeded NYs, and about 6 more are racing to beat NY.

About 90% of the deaths in ALL OF THOSE PLACES were avoidable. We in NY had it first. We made the mistakes. We died in large numbers learning what to do. But when we were done, WE ALL knew what to do.

None of this had to happen.