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June 23, 2020 -- The most infected country in the world, the United States, reported its highest single-day count of new infections today, just shy of 36,000, since the start of the pandemic. After a staggering one day record of 55,209 new cases established last Friday in Brazil, the largest South American country reported a second high mark just north of 40,000 new cases and a sobering count of 1,364 deaths since yesterday. As Mexico suffered another large 7.4 earth quake today in Oaxaca, the country also reported a new COVID-19 peak, while the virus killed 793 of its people. Boosted with yet another near peak in India, the top three infected countries on the small blue dot fueled the world's second highest count of 167,416 new COVID-19 cases and, tonight, 5,540 more families are mourning more victims of the deadly virus. If your government is not going to inform you, here is some advice: until we have a proven vaccine, all we have are mitigation strategies to protect ourselves from this deadly disease: stay home as much as you can, wear a mask, keep your distance, wash your hands often, and use common sense.

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The United States set a new COVID-19 pandemic record: 35,992 new cases in 24 hours, while the virus killed 863 more Americans.

As they did yesterday, California and Texas reported new single-day records today. Together, the two gigantic COVID flares contributed 33% of our country's new high watermark of new cases, as the pandemic rages through the southern and western states of our stunned country. All the mitigation measures worked two months ago, but many have relaxed their vigilance and now we are all paying for it. Consider this: today, on the worst day of the pandemic in the United States, our president is holding the only mass indoor event in the nation, a super spreader in the making, in a state that just established yet a new record of new confirmed infections in one day.

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The Madera County Department of Public Health announced this evening that 25 more of our county's residents were confirmed infected with COVID-19 since yesterday, bringing our cumulative cases to 359 in Madera. COVID-19 has killed 280 residents (+9) from our area of the central valley, of which the cumulative documented infections now total 14,403. Tulare county's single day report peaked today with 257 new cases. The 7 counties added 659 new cases, only 4 shy of the June 1 peak of 633. Also noteworthy, 58% of all the cases in the combined 7 counties have been confirmed since Memorial Day, less than a month ago.

Note: The tests information was estimated because Tulare and Merced counties do not explicitly share the data (only occasionally in Merced press releases), however, the positivity rate is available in the Merced County dashboard and the state of California also publishes the Tulare positivity rate, which enabled me to estimate the tests quantities.

Madera + 6 local counties

7 counties together