Texas health authorities said there were 2,287 coronavirus patients across its hospitals on Sunday, the 6th new high for coronavirus hospitalizations in the state in less than a week.
. Infectious disease experts say the steady rise in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations in Texas and other states will likely add to scrutiny from some U.S. lawmakers that some states opened businesses too early.
"A spike in new cases is unavoidable due to the early reopenings, which is combined with other developments like protests to create fertile ground for its ongoing transmission," said Yanzhong Huang, a public health researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the Center for Global Health Studies at Seton Hall University.
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