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A guy dressed in gloves and a mask for himself from COVID-19 put a “I voted” sticker on his blouse as he left an electoral college at four Indian Creek Fire Station in Miami Beach, Florida, on Election Day.
Americans flocked to the polls Tuesday in the shadow of a pandemic resurgence, with an alarming increase in cases across the country and the number of others hospitalized with COVID-19 who achieved record titles in several developing states.
While daily infections are highest in all three states, the peak of the outbreak was pronounced in the Midwest and Southwest.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota and New Mexico reported record hospitalizations this week. Nebraska’s largest hospitals have begun restricting elective surgeries and have sought to bring nurses from other states to deal with the outbreak. Iowa and Missouri have warned that bed capacity may soon be exceeded.
The resurgence hovered over applicants and voters, fearing the virus itself and the economic record of any additional closure of its spread. The debate over the extent to which economically costly measures have divided an already highly polarized country during President Donald Trump’s turbulent four years.
The pandemic marked who chose the electorate at the ballot box and how they did it. While many Americans benefited from mail-order voting, the ranks were long at many polling stations, and record participation and pandemic reminders were expected everywhere.
“It’s very serious that we have another 400 people accumulated in an area at the height of the pandemic here in Wisconsin. So we tried to take all steps to restrict movement in the room,” said Claire Woodall-Vogg, director of the Milwaukee City Electoral Commission, where election officials were divided into 12 other modules to restrict contact.
Wisconsin’s fitness reported new cases of coronavirus, a new record, on Tuesday, 5771.
In Indiana, the Republican attorney general’s candidate tested positive for COVID-19 after presenting “some symptoms,” he announced his crusade Tuesday. Former American representative Todd Rokita quarantined himself with his circle of relatives after learning that he was exposed to the virus, he said. .
A hand sanitist in the hands of voters will block a polling station scanner at an electoral college in Des Moines, Iowa, state Secretary Kevin Hall spokesman Kevin Hall said.
Hall claimed that some voters were weeping their hands when they manipulated the ballots and that the accumulation of disinfectant eventually prevented the scanner from working. The device repaired in about an hour.
Meanwhile, Iowa hospital officials warned that comforts and can be overcome effortlessly to curb the spread of the virus. The state’s seven-day moving average positivity rate reached 36. 4% over the weekend, the third highest in the country after the south. Dakota and Wyoming, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, hospitalizations reached a record 730 on Monday.
Suresh Gunasekaran, executive director of hospitals and clinics at the University of Iowa, said the state was entering its third peak, higher than last May and July. He said his biggest fear is that this beak will occur at the start of the season without blood. flu and other respiratory diseases accumulate hospitalizations.
“The infection rate is a major indicator of hospitalizations and the hospitalization rate is a major indicator of mortality,” Gunasekaran said.
Nebraska Fitness said hospitalizations had doubled in recent weeks, reaching a record 613 on Sunday.
“There is no doubt that this trend continues, not just in our hospitals; however, each and every hospital in the state can be at full capacity in no time,” said Dr. Cary Ward, CHI’s leading physician The health network of 14 hospitals in east Nebraska and western Iowa, said a video call with reporters.
In Missouri, leaders at several rural hospitals warned about the capacity of beds at a convention convened last week with Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who rejected his Democratic opponent’s chimney in the election for his refusal to factor a state-wide masked court order. Health reported 1,659 hospitalizations across the state on Monday, surpassing the previous record set the day before 10. Among the five additional deaths was a 13-year-old boy, the first child under the age of 14 to die from the virus in Missouri.
Hospitalizations in New Mexico set a new high for the twelfth consecutive day, with 401 reported on Tuesday. The state also set a record for the number of COVID-19 cases reported in an undes married day, 1141. hospitalized with coronavirus than at any other time from a peak in April.
Trump’s insistence that the United States “turn” the virus around has infuriated many voters with figures that tell another story.
The virus has killed more than 232,000 people in the country and the total number of cases shown of coronavirus has exceeded nine million. As hospitalizations are higher, deaths are also higher. two weeks from around 58424 on October 1 from nine to 83805 on Monday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins.
“The fact that he (Trump) is acting like this is a fake virus that everyone is looking to get rid of from the workplace shows how intricate his thinking is,” said Carrie Rogers, 44, head of software progression at Mount Laurel, New Jersey, who issued her poll for former Vice President Joe Biden in one of the many closed boxes installed in the state.
Equally worrisome is the concern of greater economic pain if the country moves toward a series of lockdowns to involve the virus. While the US economy grew at a record 33. 1% annual rate in the July-September quarter, it has yet to fully recover from the fall in the spring.
Trump’s message of economic recovery above containment has resonated with electorates such as Jason Schanta, business owner and father of 13-year-old twins in Fountain Valley, California, who said his business was running long before the pandemic, prompting him to vote for the presidency. .
“I don’t accept biden as true to open it,” Schanta said of the economy.
But there were symptoms of the resurgence of the virus that hindered economic reopening even government closure orders, while a fearful audience remains away from risky activities.
The International Cruise Line Association, which accounts for most of the cruise industry, said its members were ending the suspension of U. S. shipping operations. But it’s not the first time Until the end of the year, a few days after the US government has been able to do so. But it’s not the first time He’ll raise his order not to sail. The organization estimates that cruise suspension has eliminated more than $25 billion in economic activity and 164,000 jobs in the United States.
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