{"id":53594,"date":"2020-06-11T07:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53594"},"modified":"2020-06-11T07:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:06:31","slug":"cdc-expects-200k-covid-19-deaths-by-october-as-dreaded-second-wave-arrives-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53594","title":{"rendered":"CDC Expects 200k COVID-19 Deaths By October As Dreaded &#8216;Second Wave&#8217; Arrives: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/cdc-expects-200k-covid-19-deaths-october-dreaded-second-wave-arrives-live-updates\">CDC Expects 200k COVID-19 Deaths By October As Dreaded &#8216;Second Wave&#8217; Arrives: Live Updates<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scott Gottlieb explains the problem with Texas&#8217; response<\/li><li>Epidemiologists warn about threat of &#8216;second wave&#8217;<\/li><li>Mumbai hospitals overwhelmed<\/li><li>Russia cases top 500k<\/li><li>Latin America death toll tops 80k<\/li><li>US projects nearly 200k COVID deaths by October<\/li><li>LA County still seeing ~1,300 new cases a day as reopening continues<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update (0720ET):&nbsp;<\/strong>Former FDA Commissioner and perennial &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; guest Scott Gottlieb offered some commentary about the situation in Texas, explaining that characterizing this as a &#8216;second wave&#8217; might be misleading since &#8216;they never really got over the first&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that Texas hasn&#8217;t traced the rising case numbers, which are overwhelmingly centered in the greater Houston area, to a specific source &#8211; like a meatpacking plant or something &#8211; worries Gottlieb, because that means the contact tracers in the state have failed at their basic mission: to find the source of any &#8216;super-spreader&#8217; incidents quickly before they become &#8216;super-duper spreaders&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquawkCNBC\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquawkCNBC\"><strong>Squawk Box\u2714<\/strong>@SquawkCNBC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquawkCNBC\/status\/1271027689781157888\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not a second wave, they never really got rid of the first wave,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottGottliebMD\">@ScottGottliebMD<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash\">#COVID19<\/a> outbreaks in Arizona, Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina. &#8220;The more concerning part is they haven&#8217;t been able to isolate what the source of the infection is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EaOY8ZaX0AAV9CW?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Embedded video\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for the comforting words, doc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With futures pointing to a sharp drop at the open for the Dow, it appears investors are finally confronting signs of a second wave that have emerged both in the US, and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one scientist who appeared on CNBC&#8217;s Worldwide Exchange program Thursday morning claimed, signs of a genuine second wave have emerged around the world, including in Sweden and Iran. Fortunately, we haven&#8217;t seen a sharp move higher in mortality alongside the surge in cases &#8211; but that could follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC Expects 200k COVID-19 Deaths By October As Dreaded &#8216;Second Wave&#8217; Arrives: Live Updates Summary: Scott Gottlieb explains the problem with Texas&#8217; response Epidemiologists warn about threat of &#8216;second wave&#8217; Mumbai hospitals overwhelmed Russia cases top 500k Latin America death toll tops 80k US projects nearly 200k COVID deaths by October LA County still seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,29011,29865,827,29864,4318],"class_list":["post-53594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cdc","tag-covid-19","tag-second-wave","tag-united-states","tag-us-center-for-disease-control","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53595,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions\/53595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}