Current Events > California FIRST State in U.S. to pass 500,000 Coronavirus Infected Milestone

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-becomes-first-state-to-hit-half-a-million-coronavirus-cases/

More than half a million people have tested positive for the coronavirus in California, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. California is the first U.S. state to hit 500,000 cases.
More than 9,000 people have died from coronavirus in California, and more than 6,000 people are in the hospital or an intensive care unit, according to state data published Friday morning.
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According to the state, 33 of 58 counties are currently flagged for having elevated disease transmission, increased hospitalization rates, and/or a limited hospital capacity.
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Only Sao Paulo, Brazil, has more cases than California, with over 540,000.

Good job California. We knew you can do it.

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And how many people live here compared to other states?

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

And how many people live here compared to other states?

Texas has 90% of the cases that California has, but just about 75% of the population. It's a population of 39 million vs 29 million. If the same percent of California's population had covid-19 as in Texas, California would be over 600,000 by now, if my calculations are correct.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Texas has 90% of the cases that California has, but just about 75% of the population. It's a population of 39 million vs 29 million. If the same percent of California's population had covid-19 as in Texas, California would be over 600,000 by now, if my calculations are correct.

That's still a shitload and is a meaningless point

Let's be real. They have well over 500K cases.

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Holy motherfucker
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dont look at me. i wear my mask, stay at home, and use hand sanitizer.

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I live in LA county still don't know anyone who has gotten it yet.

**fingers crossed**

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ToPoPO posted...

That's still a shitload and is a meaningless point

Well, two people had ask about the population compared to another state, I did the math on the 2nd most populated state. So it's valid, because it answers a question asked in the thread.

Florida and New York fare even worse, as they have even more cases than Texas, but they have almost half the population of California. If those States had the same population of California, they would have well over eight hundred thousand cases.

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Using per population, the U.S. isn't the worst country in managing COVID then.

Highest per capita cases are often found in states with smaller populations where testing may lead to more detected cases. The highest number of reported cases per 100,000 people is now found in Qatar (3,834), followed by French Guiana (2,587), Bahrain (2395), San Marino (2,024) and Chile (1849). Of the countries with the highest total case numbers, the United States of America have a count of 1,326 cases per 100,000 people (with a total of 4.4 million cases), followed by Brazil (2.6 million total, 1,201 relative), India (1.6 million total, 119 per capita).

And if we're going to use mortality, European countries are doing worse than the U.S.
The highest mortality rates (reported deaths per number of confirmed cases) are found in Yemen with 28.2%, followed by France (17.3%), United Kingdom (15.2%), Belgium (14.5%), Italy (14.2%) and Hungary (13.2%). Eleven countries have a mortality of 10% or higher.

So are you going to look at raw numbers, or per capita?

wow, thank god we're still ahead of first world powerhouses Qatar, French Guiana, Bahrain, San Marino and Chile

Waiting for the Cali boys to come in this topic and get all defensive about it.

This country fuckin blows asshole

That's unfortunate.
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DarthAragorn posted...

wow, thank god we're still ahead of first world powerhouses Qatar, French Guiana, Bahrain, San Marino and Chile

This, that's good company to have
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Hell yeah Cali number 1 yet again! We can thank places like Huntington Beach for fighting for FREEDOM by not wearing masks (which actually kill people and stop God's beautiful breathing system) for this

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lol where was this population talk when NY was number 1 and CA was hailed as having done the best job in US. Now that it has reverse so many excuses for CA fucking up. Why cant people just admit they just as bad as the GOP states right now.

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Yikes California

DarthAragorn posted...

wow, thank god we're still ahead of first world powerhouses Qatar, French Guiana, Bahrain, San Marino and Chile

Learn to read.
It switches from Per Capita to Total cases.

Per Capita, we're doing as well as France.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Texas has 90% of the cases that California has, but just about 75% of the population. It's a population of 39 million vs 29 million. If the same percent of California's population had covid-19 as in Texas, California would be over 600,000 by now, if my calculations are correct.

Who gives a shit.

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Pretty much every sane person in California was warning Newsom about reopening too early, but nope, and now we're here. We barely flatten the curve and then they decided to reopen.

I'm also pretty pissed at our county's health officer because he was praised for having a strong statement against anti-maskers and people who refused to shelter-in-place, but the following week later he urged businesses to reopen.

Many of us tried calling and protesting, but those big donors speak louder.

CommonStar posted...

Pretty much every sane person in California was warning Newsom about reopening too early, but nope, and now we're here. We barely flatten the curve and then they decided to reopen.

I'm also pretty pissed at our county's health officer because he was praised for having a strong statement against anti-maskers and people who refused to shelter-in-place, but the following week later he urged businesses to reopen.

Many of us tried calling and protesting, but those big donors speak louder.

And then we got counties like Orange County, who think throwing kids to school in person is the way to go

BlueTigerLion posted...

lol where was this population talk when NY was number 1 and CA was hailed as having done the best job in US. Now that it has reverse so many excuses for CA fucking up. Why cant people just admit they just as bad as the GOP states right now.

Because it's not. If you have a state of 500 people and 300 are sick, you don't get to say "well at least we don't have 1,000 sick people"

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ToPoPO posted...

That's still a shitload and is a meaningless point

Exactly. Thank you.

This guy always posts the same crap.

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HiddenRoar posted...

Learn to read.
It switches from Per Capita to Total cases.

Per Capita, we're doing as well as France.

???

You listed infections and deaths, we're by far doing worse than any other comparable country in infections per capita. No one's even close if we're looking at current infections.

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CloneTheHero posted...

on the other hand, texas, and az have possibly plateaued hospitalizations are decreasing.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-COVID-19-hospitalizations-drop-first-time-15405482.php

that was 3 weeks ago

how does it look now

IMNOTRAGED posted...

???

You listed infections and deaths, we're by far doing worse than any other comparable country in infections per capita. No one's even close if we're looking at current infections.

We're not. Per capita, the US is on par with France.
Reread what Darth posted. Qatar, French Guiana, Bahrain, San Marino, and Chile have the highest cases per capita.

And if you're looking at raw infections, then California leads the country.

There would be more if they tested more

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California lol

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Texas has 90% of the cases that California has, but just about 75% of the population. It's a population of 39 million vs 29 million. If the same percent of California's population had covid-19 as in Texas, California would be over 600,000 by now, if my calculations are correct.

"B-b-but TEXAS!"

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HiddenRoar posted...

Reread what Darth posted. Qatar, French Guiana, Bahrain, San Marino, and Chile have the highest cases per capita.

Comparable country, as in countries of similar wealth and resources

HiddenRoar posted...

Per capita, the US is on par with France.

In deaths yes. Infections, no. They have it fairly under control, there are still 1000+ people dying from it per day here. How is this even something you're trying to argue


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Why is the right wing so terrible at math tho

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Florida is right behind them, and they have over 100k more active cases. Active cases means more at this point than total cases. Still, that's not good.

Honestly though we are just splitting hairs, all these states that are red hot are doing poor, who really cares who is worse than the other. We need to stop focusing or red and blue states and focus on the fact that people are dying. California, Texas, Florida, New York, it's all the same.

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Spooking posted...

They can't shit talk Florida anymore, so you won't see them.

What was that?

There's like 39 and a half million people here in Cali, what about per capita?

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Crazyman93 posted...

"B-b-but TEXAS!"

Yes, Texas is doing worse than California.

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"milestone"

Is there a correlation with population density?

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Silver Bearings posted...

Is there a correlation with population density?

Yes
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