Talk:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020

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Section size for Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020 (37 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	483	483
Case statistics	81	81
Pandemic chronology	26	126,789
1 September	5,735	5,735
2 September	5,303	5,303
3 September	3,852	3,852
4 September	5,864	5,864
5 September	5,201	5,201
6 September	4,539	4,539
7 September	4,090	4,090
8 September	4,352	4,352
9 September	3,861	3,861
10 September	4,483	4,483
11 September	3,791	3,791
12 September	3,785	3,785
13 September	3,668	3,668
14 September	4,014	4,014
15 September	3,877	3,877
16 September	4,565	4,565
17 September	3,228	3,228
18 September	3,864	3,864
19 September	4,630	4,630
20 September	3,768	3,768
21 September	4,776	4,776
22 September	4,338	4,338
23 September	3,412	3,412
24 September	3,203	3,203
25 September	4,427	4,427
26 September	3,782	3,782
27 September	3,761	3,761
28 September	4,627	4,627
29 September	3,999	3,999
30 September	3,968	3,968
Summary	14	1,142
Timeline	1,128	1,128
See also	56	56
References	172	172
Total	128,723	128,723

Unreferenced entry on USA, 2 September 2020

There's one remaining entry on the September Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic that still has a "citation needed" tag, (I've dealt with the rest). It's the 6th (last) bullet point for 2 September. It states: "The United States of America surpasses 6 million covid cases." The reason I have not been able to find a reference for this is that most of the notable sources are from 31 August 2020, such as: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-53976793. There are sources dated nearly a week after the 2nd, such as the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/world/coronavirus-covid.html. I then thought that the entry should be moved to the Timeline for 31 August 2020, but on inspecting the August timeline, I realised that the format there is different, in particular, it cites "WHO Situation Report" for each day, and appears to cover only 4 countries each day: Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Ukraine. I didn't want to break the format by inserting an entry for the USA for 31 August. Am not sure what to do? SpookiePuppy (talk) 16:56, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The entry for USA of 2 September 2020 has been moved to 1 September 2020 and sourced using The Guardian. This is something of a compromise, as the pandemic event of the USA passing the milestone of 6 million COVID-19 cases was more widely reported on 31 August 2020. Ideally an entry should be made on the page for the previous month. The only reason this has not been done is the difference in format (the use of WHO Situation Reports) in the earlier pandemic chronology months. SpookiePuppy (talk) 21:43, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]