HOUSTON, July 8 — The US coronavirus outbreak crossed a grim new milestone of over three million confirmed cases yesterday as more states reported record numbers of new infections, and Florida faced an impending shortage of intensive care unit hospital beds. Authorities have reported alarming...
Overheated, a healthcare worker takes a break as people wait in their vehicles in long lines for Covid-19 testing in Houston, Texas July 7, 2020. — Reuters pic
California, Hawaii, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas yesterday shattered their previous daily record highs for new cases. About 24 states have also reported disturbingly high infection rates as a percentage of diagnostic tests conducted over the past week.The trend has driven many more Americans to seek out Covid-19 screenings.
Dean Davis, 32, who lost his job due to the pandemic, said he arrived at the testing site at 3am yesterday after he waited for hours on Monday but failed to make the cutoff. Additional hospitalisations could strain healthcare systems in many areas, leading to an uptick in deaths from the respiratory illness that has killed more than 131,000 Americans to date.
“The US didn’t experience a true end of the first wave of the pandemic,” IHME Director Dr Christopher Murray said in a statement. “This will not spare us from a second surge in the fall, which will hit particularly hard in states currently seeing high levels of infections.”US President Donald Trump, who has pushed for restarting the US economy and urged Americans to return to their normal routines, said on Tuesday he would lean on state governors to open schools in the fall.
In Arizona, another hot spot, the rate of coronavirus tests coming back positive rose to 26 per cent for the week ended July 5, leading two dozen states with positivity rates exceeding 5 per cent. The World Heath Organisation considers a rate over 5 per cent to be troubling.
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