More than 34,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the U.S.on Wednesday representing the highest daily increases since April.
The U.S. reached 2 million COVID-19 cases less than two weeks ago. Less than a fortnight later we have surpassed 2.3 million cases. We shall undoubtedly have reached the 2.5 million mark by the end of the month.
More than half of U.S. states are seeing increases in COVID-19 cases including the three most populous states in the Union (California, Florida and Texas).
The Trump Administration attributes these numbers to increased testing, but seven states are reporting their highest hospitalization rates since the beginning of the pandemic. If one compares the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases per million in the United States it is nearly off the chart compared to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy and France.
Some of this surge can be attributed to various states rushing to re-open. Some of it can be attributed to people disregarding wearing masks or engage in social distancing up to and including recent protests over the past several weeks since the murder of George Floyd. I suspect this surge will continue so long as President Trump insists on holding political rallies of his own.
The bottom line is that things are going to get worse before they get better and it might be a very long time before things get better.
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