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The U.S. has recorded over 143,500 new coronavirus cases over the July Fourth Weekend.
COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 11,398,501 people globally and 2,876,143 in the U.S. as of Sunday, up from 2,732,639 on Thursday evening ahead of the long weekend, according to official figures collated by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. It had claimed 533,343 lives worldwide, and 129,891 in the U.S.
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‘It makes me angry. You know, I understand he has a tough job, but it is dangerous not to be sending a clear message to Americans.’
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While COVID-19’s progress has slowed in states such as New York, where most cases in the U.S. are still centered, confirmed coronavirus cases have risen in nearly 40 U.S. states.
New cases are up 42% in Florida over the past week, 32% in Arizona, 40% in Montana, 37% in the Virgin Islands, 33% in Idaho, 30% in South Carolina, 29% in Texas, 28% in Arizona, and up 21% in California over the same period, according to this tally by the Washington Post. The rolling seven-day average of new cases was 48,361 Saturday, up from 11,740 one week ago, the paper added.
In Texas, the number of cases rose by more than 6,000 on July 4, bringing the total number of cases in the state to nearly 200,000. Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, told CNN’s
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“State of the Union” show on Sunday: “If we don’t change the trajectory, we are within two weeks of having our hospitals overrun.”
Citing comments by President Donald Trump that COVID-19 would go away, and the July 4th gathering at the White House with many guests who were not social distancing or wearing masks, Adler, a Democrat, said, “It makes me angry. You know, I understand he has a tough job, but it is dangerous not to be sending a clear message to Americans.”
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New York has had the most deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S., followed by New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, echoed those sentiments on CBS
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“A month ago one in 10 people were testing positive. Today, it’s one in four. The number of…
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