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July 10 (UPI) -- For the third time in a week, the United States has broken the single-day record for new COVID-19 cases -- and this time the tally exceeded 63,000 cases, topping the previous mark by thousands.
Updated data Friday from researchers at Johns Hopkins University said about 63,200 new cases were reported Thursday in the United States -- breaking the previous high, set Tuesday, by about 3,000 patients.
About 3.12 million cases and 133,300 deaths have been reported in the United States to date, according to Johns Hopkins.
Florida reported a record 120 deaths and almost 9,000 new cases Thursday, a slight decline from previous days that saw more than 10,000 new cases.
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Bed space in intensive care units and hospital vacancy is limited statewide. Health officials said about half of all Florida ICU units are at least 90 percent full and more than 400 patients were hospitalized Thursday, another record.
Yeah but aside from all that.Responding to my own question in my post 515, here's from a man who has his "feet" in both the U.S. and Canada:
Canada's attempts to combat the coronavirus are far from perfect — it trails behind the low death rates of South Korea and Germany — but it's doing a lot better than the US.
According to Vox, the US has nearly twice as many confirmed cases of the coronavirus as Canada, and it has 30% more deaths per capita...
Both nations watched coronavirus spike at about the same time in mid-March. But Canada's caseload trajectory took a far gentler curve than that in the US.
These divergent trajectories are down to a number of factors. Canada's response was mostly quick and coordinated — it closed down schools and promptly told people to stay home, according to The Guardian. Its borders were shut off to every country but the US on March 16. (The US-Canada land border was also closed on March 20.)
In the US, weeks were lost as different states went into lockdowns at different points, or at different "half-hearted" levels.
Politics mattered, too. While President Donald Trump was hosting daily coronavirus briefings where he criticized governors, and wrongly suggested disinfectant could be a coronavirus cure, Canada's leaders mostly came together and took the coronavirus seriously...
University of Toronto epidemiologist David Fisman told Vox: "We have a federal government that is supporting provinces' responses. You [in the US] have a chief executive who is directly undermining the public health response."
For instance, on March 24, Trump forecast that normality would return by Easter. No politician said the same in Canada. Instead, on April 2, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for a "Team Canada" effort to stem the outbreak, before parliament debated a massive aid package proposal. Canada's deputy Prime Miniser Chrystia Freeland told reporters that "now is not the time for partisanship."
Another big difference is that Canada continued to fund public-health groups before the coronavirus hit, while the US repeatedly cut funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
In the US, hospitals are private. In Canada, the health system is based on fixed funding and it does not matter how many beds are used. This, he said: "allows the public health authorities to essentially commandeer the hospital system. It's a command and control thing, it's not a coordination thing."
So authorities in Canada could order hospitals to prepare. In the US, he said, no one could tell hospitals what to do. But, even worse than that, the system was designed to work against such orders...
But Canada can be praised for basic competence. According to Vox, it's "what you would expect from a country with a functioning political and health care system. The United States, by contrast, hasn't cleared this lowest of bars."
York University political scientist Steven Hoffman told Vox Canada's biggest health threat is now cases coming from the US. -- Canada is dealing with the coronavirus far better than the US, which has 30% more deaths per capita. Here's why.
And since the article was written, the numbers in Canada went down and have stayed down, whereas in the U.S. they are again spiking.