COVID-19 Pandemic Update: New U.S. Coronavirus Cases Jump Above 50,000

25 POSITIVE COVID-19 TESTS:

1. President Donald Trump (Rose Garden Event)
2. Melania Trump (Rose Garden Event)
3. Bill Stepien, Trump campaign manager (Rose Garden Event)
4. Hope Hicks (Rose Garden Event)
5. Kellyanne Conway (Rose Garden Event)
6. Sen. Mike Lee (R). (Rose Garden Event)
7. Sen. Thom Tillis (R) (Rose Garden Event)
8. Ronna McDaniel (Rose Garden Event)
9. Notre Dame President John Jenkins (Rose Garden Event)
10. Former Gov. Chris Christie (R) (Rose Garden Event)
11-13. Three White House reporters (Rose Garden Event)
14-24. Eleven staffers at the Cleveland Trump-Biden debate
25. Sen. Ron Johnson (R)

Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, best known for breaking the story about the history of sexual abuse allegations against Roger Ailes, has just launched himself to the front of the pack of left-wing reporters reporting scurrilous rumblings about the president’s condition.

The “am I going out like Stan Chera?” line is almost too on the nose; perhaps it was said in jest.

Conversations w Republicans close to the White House over the last 12 hours indicate it’s been far direr than the White House has said. Before being taken to Walter Reed, Trump kept asking aides, “Am I going out like Stan Chera? Am I?” (Chera was Trump’s NYC friend who died of COVID in April) — Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) October 3, 2020

Per source, Trump was told on Friday he could go to Walter Reed voluntarily, but he would be taken no matter what when his condition worsened. Doctors told Trump if he waited he could lose the ability to walk to Marine One (optics of a wheelchair or stretcher obvs would be terrible) — Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) October 3, 2020

• In the U.S. total confirmed infections in U.S. rise to nearly 7.34 million, while deaths approach 209,000
• Cuomo threatens to fine municipalities for ‘non-compliance’
• NY reports another 1,500+ daily cases
• Spain has in recent weeks been battling Europe’s biggest outbreak, with Madrid hit particularly hard imposing a new partial lockdown on the capital city of Madrid and its suburbs
• Russia reports 9,412 new infections, its highest daily tally since May 23, pushing the national total to 1,194,643 cases, while Moscow, the epicenter of the Russian outbreak, reported 2,704 cases alone. 186 people had died nationwide in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 21,077.
• Malaysia sees another daily record
• Wisconsin ranked third behind Texas and California in terms of total new cases in the last seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• For new cases per capita, Wisconsin is third behind the Dakotas, where some outbreaks have been tied to meatpacking plants and large gatherings like concerts.
• New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton has tested positive for the coronavirus
• India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 on Saturday, while the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase of 79,476 new cases making India only the third country in the world to reach that depressing milestone after the US and Brazil