The United States has hit record new COVID-19 cases for the last three days running. Hospitalizations are climbing back to numbers not seen since July. The Trump White House cluster is still active.
BBC:
More than 127,000 infections were reported in 24 hours, as well as 1,149 deaths.
The news comes as officials announced that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had also tested positive for the virus.
He is the latest Trump administration official to contract the disease.
The US is the worst affected nation in the world by Covid-19, with more than 9.7 million confirmed cases and a death toll of more than 230,000.
With just over 4% of the world’s population, at 9.7 million Americans infected the U.S. has recorded 20% of the world’s cases and 19% of the world’s deaths. This is American exceptionalism, Trump-style.
Meadows tested positive on Wednesday along with “at least four other White House officials.” May physicians treat them better than they did the country entrusted to their care.
It is going to be a long death march to January 20.