TC McCarthy

Journalist & Vice President of Digital Development @newsday, coding adjunct at @newmarkjschool. Passions: Science, tech, politics, @NYJets and the USA

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@hattra2 @tcmccarthy_ @Jordan1Ben @HistoryBowsh @Independent Tagged the wrong guy. FYI he has me blocked too though we’ve never conversed.

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.@Docker please restore openjdk:8, even temporarily. Removing it from the repository on US Election Day is hazardous to many organizations that happily pay your license fees.

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Fatal Stakes: Racehorses at Belmont are dying at higher rates
As the 156th Belmont Stakes approaches this weekend at Saratoga, a Newsday investigation reveals the increasing death rate of racehorses at Belmont Park. https://t.co/0LsdsuUi2F

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@github we opened a detach fork request an hour ago. We need our wiki and protected branches back! Please help

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Hey @StackPath do you support the stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error directives in your CDN cache?

[Laura Albanese @AlbaneseLaura]

The smaller scoreboard at Citi currently trying to will a do-over into existence.

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@AlbaneseLaura Best of luck to Obi!!

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U.S. saw 45,143 new #COVID19 cases on March 23, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 28,694.7 per day
Deaths: 316.1 per day
Pos tests: 10.1%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
IL: 2,484.1 (19.6)
OH: 2,086 (17.8)
OK: 700.4 (17.7)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. saw 51,812 new #COVID19 cases on March 22, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 29,403.6 per day
Deaths: 353.1 per day
Pos tests: 10%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
SD: 199.3 (22.5)
WA: 1,684.4 (22.1)
LA: 985.6 (21.2)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. saw 18,326 new #COVID19 cases on March 21, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 24,883.1 per day
Deaths: 303.7 per day
Pos tests: 10%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
ME: 266.7 (19.8)
MI: 1,914.7 (19.2)
AK: 133.6 (18.3)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. saw 9,780 new #COVID19 cases on March 20, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 24,138.7 per day
Deaths: 287.9 per day
Pos tests: 10.1%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
KY: 710.3 (15.9)
WA: 1,147.6 (15.1)
NE: 236.3 (12.2)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. saw 1,420 new #COVID19 cases on March 19, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 22,884.6 per day
Deaths: 268.1 per day
Pos tests: 10.1%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
WA: 1,147.6 (15.1)
SD: 107.4 (12.1)
PR: 361.6 (11.3)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. had 1,175 new #COVID19 cases on March 18, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 22,894.4 per day
Deaths: 269 per day
Pos tests: 10.1%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
WA: 1,147.6 (15.1)
SD: 107.4 (12.1)
PR: 376.1 (11.8)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. saw 18,743 new #COVID19 cases on March 17, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 24,178.1 per day
Deaths: 279.4 per day
Pos tests: 10.1%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
DE: 247.6 (25.4)
ND: 165.1 (21.7)
MT: 170 (15.9)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. had 50,566 new #COVID19 cases on March 16, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 28,877.4 per day
Deaths: 415.9 per day
Pos tests: 10.1%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
DE: 247.6 (25.4)
OK: 916.3 (23.2)
IL: 2,732.1 (21.6)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. had 50,105 new #COVID19 cases on March 15, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 30,706.4 per day
Deaths: 438 per day
Pos tests: 10.4%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
DE: 247.6 (25.4)
WV: 403.7 (22.5)
SD: 199 (22.5)

Source: @COVIDActNow

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

This is why I tell journalism students that open-ended questions are better than questions that sound tough. When conservatives first hijacked “woke,” every journalist should have asked them to define it. Cause these meltdowns would have happened a lot.

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U.S. saw 20,169 new #COVID19 cases on March 14, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 26,947.6 per day
Deaths: 381.4 per day
Pos tests: 10.4%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
ME: 334.7 (24.9)
MI: 2,043.9 (20.5)
DE: 195 (20)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. saw 12,914 new #COVID19 cases on March 13, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 26,148.1 per day
Deaths: 360.9 per day
Pos tests: 9.6%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
KY: 1,154.3 (25.8)
DE: 195 (20)
ME: 195.7 (14.6)

Source: @COVIDActNow

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U.S. had 1,005 new #COVID19 cases on March 12, 2023.

7-day avg:
New cases: 24,527.1 per day
Deaths: 346.3 per day
Pos tests: 9.6%

Top 3 (7-day daily avg increase per capita):
DE: 195 (20)
KY: 750.1 (16.8)
ME: 195.7 (14.6)

Source: @COVIDActNow