Saturday, October 31, 2020

Day 273 Retrospective: SNOVID-19

On Day 273, the US recorded 101,000 cases (by the Worldometers count), setting a local record, if not a world record. BNO also noted a weekly record of 500,000 cases. Despite some shuffling of the higher ranks (and plenty of panic), Massachusetts remained at #21 in US case counts. Cases were up about 1%.

"SNOVID" appears to have been coined by oldgrimalkin on Reddit, in honor of the unseasonable snowfall in Massachusetts on the day before Halloween. Also of coronaviral note on the 30th were a confirmed COVID case and a presumptive case in two captive Tennessee tigers. The victims, while seemingly recovered and unlikely to get within six feet of anyone, remain in quarantine.

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