JUST IN: The U.S. has now reported more than 3 million coronavirus cases. One million of those have been confirmed in the past month — part of a wave of infection that began after many states started to reopen their economies in May.
The total number of cases also includes nearly 1 million people declared to have recovered. But more than 130,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 – roughly twice the death toll of any other country, according to a tracker from"I did not expect it to grow this quickly" in the U.S., says, assistant professor of global health and epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta.
While some early hot spots such as New York state have been able to tamp down new cases, COVID-19 has exploded elsewhere, with record case numbers and hospitalizations in states such as Florida, Arizona, Texas and California."In a federal system, we will have different responses in different states. And that has shown itself in the range of successes in controlling the impact of COVID-19 we have seen.
Arizona officials say they are seeing a rush of hospitalizations, forcing administrators in Pima County to send some patients elsewhere, even to another state, to receive care. In Texas, reopening has been put on pause and face coverings made mandatory for people out in public in counties with 20 or more COVID-19 cases."COVID-19 is not going away. In fact, it's getting worse," Gov. Greg Abbott said in announcing the mask rule just ahead of the July Fourth weekend.
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