Ohio Says They Have 100,000 Cases Of COVID-19

Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton said at a press conference alongside Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that given that the virus is spreading in the community in Ohio, she estimates at least 1 percent of the population in the state has the virus.

"We know now, just the fact of community spread, says that at least 1 percent, at the very least, 1 percent of our population is carrying this virus in Ohio today," Acton said. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly.

"Our delay in being able to test has delayed our understanding of the spread of this," Acton said. 

The Trump administration has come under intense criticism for the slow rollout of tests. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top National Institutes of Health official, acknowledged earlier Thursday it is "a failing" that people cannot easily get tested for coronavirus in the United States.

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But...but...but...Fox News says that Trump's response to the crisis was bigly perfect! Mike Pence licked Trump's boots at a press conference! And let's not forget, our Trumpers have been cheering him on for years and think he's doing everything wonderfully now! How can you possibly doubt the Orange One??

Dr. Fauci criticized Trump, so he's obviously part of the liberal coronavirus hoax perpetrated by Democrats, designed to overturn the results of the election, and of course, Hillary sent emails! I expect Trump to fire him within a week. (I'm taking bets!)

The only silver lining in this whole stinking mess is that Trump will lose in a landslide. Not many people will vote for a failed leader whose incompetence cost tens of thosuands of lives. (Of course, our Trumptards will remain loyal.)

Cue Stalker: "Kevin blah blah liar liar liar blah blah blah blah blah insult insult insult sick diseased twisted liberal blah blah possibly another limp-dicked death threat blah blah blah." (I thought I'd save him the trouble.)

Imagine if we had had a good and competent leader like Obama at the helm when the coronavirus threat became manifest TWO MONTHS AGO! He wouldn't have spent those two months playing golf, masturbating to Fox News, and lying to his faithful droolers at hate rallies, that's certain.

 Sick. 

Are you sick???? Oh goody! Be sure to self-quarantine!

David need not worry Dr. Giggles and his faithful nurse, Hemorrhoid, are on duty.

#CaptainTrumps 

If I remember correctly when this was just starting at the end of December, beginning of January, ALL our leaders were wasting time on a useless impeachment hearing. I think you might be mistaken about the election. The socialist healthcare systems around the world are failing their people worse then ours and Bidens plan mirrors everything Trumps doing or did. I think most level headed people realize that the CDC manufactured the tests wrong which isnt Trumps fault. People are also realizing that since every other country in the world is shutting theirs, secure borders are a good thing. I also think most people are realizing that if limited supplies of medicine is available, citizens should recieve it first. Speaking of medicine, most people are now learning that we are way too dependent on China and need to bring manufacturing back (like Trump is trying). And finally they are realizing that the final line of defense is oneself and maybe having access to a gun is a good thing.

Oh yeah. Paranoid isolationism and every citizen armed to the teeth will be the shining path to a perfect society.

Somebody's been watching too many bad movies starting Vin Diesel.

As usual, Kevin is wrong.

WOW! Rightdownthemiddle, That was an astounding amount of elbow grease you put into using your...

If I remember correctly when this was just starting at the end of December, beginning of January, ALL our leaders were wasting time on a useless impeachment hearing. 

You remember incorrectly. Trump chose not to participate in the Impeachment hearing. And it wasn't useless. If you break the law and use your office for corrupt purposes, you need to face the consequences. All the republicans, save Mitt, have gone on record voting that Trump is a fit person to hold office. I don't think history will look upon them kindly.  

And these were Trump's decisions to make. Firing the pandemic response team, rejecting the WHO tests to develop our own, calling it a hoax and fake news until last week, making the decision to not test people so his numbers looked better, focusing only on the market, not making sure there were working tests and enough protective gear, gagging the CDC because he didn't like what they said were all things Trump and Trump alone is responsible for. Congress couldn't have done anything because all of those decisions were the purview of the Executive Branch.  

 The socialist healthcare systems around the world are failing their people worse then ours and Bidens plan mirrors everything Trumps doing or did. I think most level headed people realize that the CDC manufactured the tests wrong which isnt Trumps fault.

Did you drop some acid before you typed that? Look at South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and yes, even China.  New outbreaks are on the decline in those places because they undertook aggressive testing and isolation. We aren't even up to third-world standards.

To date, we still haven't figured out how to make working and then how to mass-produce test kits. Even if we eventually do, we don't have the lab capacity to process the tests. We didn't take the Commie WHO's test kits and contracted out to the private sector to develop our own because of you know "capitalism" and we are relying on the private sector for labs. It isn't working and that is because a for-profit healthcare system that is designed to focus on rationing care to maximize private-sector profits can't scale to handle a pandemic. It isn't designed to.

I also think most people are realizing that if limited supplies of medicine is available, citizens should receive it first. Speaking of medicine, most people are now learning that we are way too dependent on China and need to bring manufacturing back (like Trump is trying). And finally they are realizing that the final line of defense is oneself and maybe having access to a gun is a good thing.

It doesn't work that way. If you don't treat everyone the virus spreads. The for-profit corporations made the decision to rely on communist China to mass-produce goods a long time ago. Perhaps some regulation and not the free hand of the market should have made that call at least when it came to medical supplies?

And finally they are realizing that the final line of defense is oneself and maybe having access to a gun is a good thing.

A gun won't protect you from a virus. The ultimate weapon is coughing, sneezing or shaking someone's hand.  

Rightdowntheextremeright brings up, like a Trumper parrot, the tired "They have SOOOOOCIALISM over there!!!" bleat. He makes the very, very hilarious statement that nations with "socialist healthcare systems" are doing worse than the US in dealing with the virus.

Actually, no nation is doing a worse job than ours--by a considerable margin!

Socialist health care means everyone can get tested and treated. Republican health care means only the rich can. Which results in better outcomes when there's a pandemic? Think hard!