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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Thu May 21, 2020 6:45 am
Published 5 hours ago Global coronavirus cases surpass 5 million By David Aaro | Fox News
Global cases of the novel coronavirus surpassed 5 million early Thursday, nearly five months after the first infection was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The virus has now spread to more people in under six months than the total number of severe flu cases each year, which is estimated to infect about three to five million globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The U.S. has recorded the most COVID-19 cases, with more than 1,551,853 total infections and at least 93,439 deaths from the virus.
However, a new phase in the virus’ spread has occurred within the past week, as Latin America recently overtook the U.S. and Europe in having the largest portion of new cases each day.
Brazil -- South America's most populous country -- recently surpassed Germany, France, and the United Kingdom to become the third-largest outbreak in the world, behind only the U.S. and Russia, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. They now have more than 291,579 confirmed coronavirus cases and at least 18,859 deaths from the virus.
The country had just 125,000 cases as of two weeks ago, which are rising at a pace second only to the U.S.
Latin America accounted for roughly a third of the 91,000 COVID-19 cases reported earlier this week, according to Reuters. Europe and the U.S. each accounted for just over 20 percent.
The coronavirus has now killed at least 328,172 people as of Thursday morning, which is roughly 424 times the amount of people that died during the SARS outbreak back in 2003, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number is likely to be higher due to limited testing in many countries throughout the world, the news organization reported. Many also don't include deaths outside of hospitals.
More than 100,000 COVID-19 cases were reported by the WHO in the previous 24 hours on Wednesday, which was the most in one day since the start of the pandemic.
“We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference. “We are very concerned about rising cases in low- and middle-income countries.”
Roughly one million new cases are being reported every two weeks, according to Reuters. It took just under three months to reach one million cases after the first death from the virus was reported by state media in Wuhan back on Jan 11.
Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Sun May 24, 2020 6:40 am
oliver clotheshoffe wrote:
So in other words wearing a mask will only drag it out and not wearing a mask would make most everyone immune.
N95 mask means 95% chance to block a 0.3 micron (300 nanometer opening).
CoVID-19 is 0.125 micron (125 nanometers).
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Wed May 27, 2020 6:27 pm
Coronavirus deaths in US top 100,000 BBC | 24 minutes ago
The US has passed 100,000 deaths in the coronavirus outbreak, figures from Johns Hopkins University show.
It has seen more deaths than any other country, while its 1.69 million confirmed infections account for about 30% of the worldwide total.
The first US infection was reported in Washington state on 21 January.
Globally there have been 5.6 million people recorded as infected and 353,414 deaths since the virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
With the US death toll currently at 100,271, BBC North America editor Jon Sopel says it is almost the same as the number of American servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan over 44 years of fighting.
How the pandemic in US compares to rest of world From 'We've shut it down' to 100,000 US dead What is the national picture? Twenty states reported a rise in new cases for the week ending on Sunday, according to a Reuters study.
The caseload remains stubbornly high in a number of metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Los Angeles and suburban Washington DC.
The US states of North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arkansas are also seeing a steady rise in cases.
Some hard-hit states are seeing a drop in death rates, including New York, where 21,000 residents have died.
During the peak of the crisis in the city, the daily death toll was in the hundreds. Hospitals were overwhelmed and makeshift morgues were built outside health facilities.
Media captionThe lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus What has President Trump said? President Donald Trump has insisted that without his administration's actions the death toll would be far higher, though critics have accused him of a slow response.
On Tuesday, he said the fatalities could have been 25 times higher.
Initially, the president downplayed the pandemic, comparing it to the seasonal flu. Back in February he said the US had the virus "under control" and that by April it could "miraculously go away".
He predicted 50,000-60,000 deaths, then 60,000-70,000 and then "substantially under 100,000".
Mr Trump also argued on 20 May it was "a badge of honour" that the US had the world's highest number of confirmed infections "because it means our testing is much better".
A study from Columbia University in New York suggested about 36,000 fewer people would have died if the US had acted sooner.
Things the US has got right - and got wrong
Media captionTrump: 'I thought it was very unusual that he had one on' How is the lockdown easing? With nearly 39 million Americans out of work during the pandemic, the US is pressing ahead state by state with reopening the coronavirus-frozen economy, even as the death toll continues to tick upwards.
All 50 states have begun to ease Covid-19 rules in some form.
The world's largest theme park, Walt Disney World in Florida, has plans to begin opening on 11 July, if the state governor allows it.
Four Las Vegas casinos owned by MGM Resorts are also scheduled to reopen on 4 July. The company says employees will be tested for Covid-19 regularly.
Currently, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. There is also no confirmed treatment for the disease, but there are several being tested.
An AP-NORC poll conducted this month found just 49% of Americans said they would get such a coronavirus vaccine.
Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Sun May 31, 2020 3:51 pm
Coronavirus cases have more than quadrupled in the month since Trump signed the executive order sending employees to return to their jobs.
On April 28, when Trump issued the order, the number of cases stood at roughly 4,000, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Food and Environment Reporting Network.
On Friday, the organization reported that at least 20,033 meatpacking workers had confirmed coronavirus cases — a four-fold increase in a month. At least 70 of those workers have died from the pandemic.
According to the data from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, there were a total of 4,330 confirmed coronavirus cases among meatpacking, food-processing, and farmworkers the day Trump signed the executive order. A month later, FERN reported 22,382 of those workers had confirmed cases.
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:09 pm
JUNE 7, 2020 / 11:09 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO Global coronavirus deaths top 400,000 as outbreak grows in Brazil, India: Reuters tally Lisa Shumaker | Reuters
(Reuters) - Global deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 400,000 on Sunday, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India, according to a Reuters tally.
The United States is responsible for about one-quarter of all fatalities but deaths in South America are rapidly rising.
The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in just five months is now equal to the number of people who die annually from malaria, one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases.
Global cases are approaching 7 million, with about 2 million, or 30%, of those cases in the United States. Latin America has the second-largest outbreak with over 15% of cases, according to Reuters tally.
The first COVID-19 death was reported on Jan. 10 in Wuhan, China but it was early April before the death toll passed 100,000, according to the Reuters tally of official reports from governments. It took 24 days to go from 300,000 to 400,000 deaths.
The United States has the highest death toll in the world at almost 110,000. Fatalities in Brazil are rising rapidly and the country may overtake the United Kingdom to have the second-largest number of deaths in the world.
The total number of deaths is believed to be higher than the officially reported 400,000 as many countries lack supplies to test all victims and some countries do not count deaths outside of a hospital. (Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus: open tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 in an external browser.)
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:08 am
US coronavirus deaths projected to reach 180,000 by October By David Aaro | Fox News
US coronavirus cases rise but death rates continue to decrease amid state reopenings.
U.S. coronavirus deaths are projected to reach 180,000 by the beginning of October unless the majority of people start wearing masks, according to a report on Wednesday.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington estimates 179,106 fatalities from COVID-19 by Oct 1, although researchers said that number can be reduced by roughly 33,000 if at least 95 percent of the population wears a mask in public.
“There is no doubt that even as states open up, the United States is still grappling with a large epidemic on a course to increase beginning in late August and intensifying in September,” said IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray.
“People need to know that wearing masks can reduce transmission of the virus by as much as 50 percent, and those who refuse are putting their lives, their families, their friends, and their communities at risk.”
The projected fatalities decreased roughly 20,000 from its previous estimate in mid-June, which the IHME attributed to an increasing number of cases being detected in younger people.
COVID-19 infections in the U.S. reached their highest single-day total on Wednesday, with more than 36,000 new cases reported -- the majority coming from Texas, Florida, and California.
The previous high was recorded roughly two months earlier. Many states have also seen an increase in cases over the past several weeks.
The IHME said that while deaths aren't increasing at the same rate, they usually lag behind infections and the fatality numbers could change in the coming weeks.
In the U.S., all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying more than 2,381,361 illnesses and at least 121,979 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:49 pm
US Treasury sent $1.4bn of pandemic aid to dead people BBC | 1 hour ago
The US Treasury department did not check death records before mailing out stimulus cheques
The US Treasury mistakenly sent more than $1.4bn (£1.1bn) of its pandemic rescue funds to dead people, government inspectors have found.
The finding was one of several "challenges" uncovered in the official review of federal coronavirus aid.
Since March, Congress has pumped some $2.6tn into the American economy in an effort to shield it from virus slowdown.
But the rush to deliver the money has contributed to errors, inspectors said.
For example, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the Treasury Department, which was in charge of mailing stimulus cheques to American families, did not check death records, even though some of the tax officials working on the programme said they raised concerns about the risk of erroneous mailings.
The report also warned that the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses - a low-cost loan fund that accounts for 26% of US pandemic spending - was at "significant risk" of fraud, faulting the Small Business Administration for not cooperating with requests for information about the loans and its plans for oversight.
"Because of the number of loans approved, the speed with which they were processed, and the limited safeguards, there is a significant risk that some fraudulent or inflated applications were approved," the inspectors said.
It said changes to respond to those risks were "essential".
Debate over aid
The report comes as lawmakers in Washington debate whether or not additional aid is necessary.
While Democrats and many economists - including the head of America's central bank - have recommended further relief, pointing to high unemployment, many Republicans have been hesitant to approve more money.
"We should be very, very careful in evaluating what's necessary before we go forward," Republican Senator Pat Toomey said at a recent hearing.
White House officials have said additional stimulus is likely, but that it makes sense to see how the efforts so far are working. Critics say federal programmes have resisted oversight efforts, however.
In April, President Donald Trump removed the official in charge of overseeing coronavirus spending.
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat from New York, said the audit had revealed "mishandling and negligence" and "mismanagement of taxpayer funds".
"If today's report makes one thing clear, it is the need for transparency and accountability," she said. "Administration officials must answer that call."
How much has the US spent on coronavirus?
Congress has approved about $2.6tn in pandemic spending since March - a package estimated at about 14% of the country's output.
About 11%, or more than $280bn, was intended to be spent on direct payments of up to $1,200 for individuals earning less than $75,000 and $500 for children.
The US has sent 160.4 million pandemic payments worth a total of $269bn so far, according to the report.
The single largest chunk of the rescue funding - about 26% - was for small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.
The US has distributed more than $500bn in loans to 4.6 million businesses so far.
Critics have said the distribution of those funds has been bungled by unclear rules and lack of oversight, claims supported by the GAO report.
"Consistent with the urgency of responding to serious and widespread health issues and economic disruptions, agencies have given priority to moving swiftly where possible to distribute funds and implement new programs," it said.
"As trade-offs were made, however, agencies have made only limited progress so far in achieving transparency and accountability goals."
Subject: U.S. Hits Highest *Single Day* Of New Coronavirus Cases; 45,500, Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:07 pm
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U.S. hits highest single day of new coronavirus cases with more than 45,500, breaking April record The grim milestone reported Wednesday surpasses the peak hit in late April.
Unfortunately, as many states struggle to contain the virus after having prematurely loosened restrictions, hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by patients.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, eager to claim victory over the coronavirus, has been considering scaling back the national emergency declared earlier this year to control the pandemic, according to healthcare industry officials who have spoken with the administration.
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:43 am
Subject: Newspaper; The China Global Times-- Wrote. Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:45 pm
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Newspaper; The China Global Times --- Wrote.
‘Completely out of control’: China says ‘US epidemic’ has become a threat to rest of the world
In a Friday, July 3, 2020, editorial titled, “Rampant US epidemic to hurt the world” China’s Global Times wrote:
The US set another record for novel coronavirus cases on Thursday. Reuters reported that the country confirmed more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases that day, which is “a new daily global record” for the pandemic.
Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner for the US Food and Drug Administration, even suggested the true number of US daily infections is between 400,000 and 500,000, though there is not enough testing to find them all.
Lies are dominating US society’s recognition of the epidemic. Political parties have put their interests in campaigning in the first place, which has distorted the society’s attention and allocation of resources.
The US fight against the virus is paralyzed. There is no national strategy to alleviate the epidemic. Political calculations have stunted the battle against COVID-19.
Americans are not willing to temporarily sacrifice their freedom for the fight against the virus. The federal government has not corrected the attitude.
Worse, it used the sentiment to promote the resumption of economic activities in a risky manner. It is making ordinary people responsible for the out-of-control epidemic.
The US economy has slightly recovered, yet the price it is paying is too high. It will surely become a burden for the US’ future economic development. The US government’s approach seems to be shaping US society’s greater tolerance toward the virus, making people less afraid of being infected.
As the only superpower, the US can shape global public opinion as it wishes. The country has manipulated the understanding over the novel coronavirus in many societies worldwide. It has not contributed to the global fight against the crisis. On the contrary, it is setting a terrible example.
No matter how the virus surfaced, the US plays the most negative role in making sure the novel coronavirus spreads fast across the globe, and we are far from ending it.
Can anyone in the world recall of outstanding contributions the US has made to the global efforts against COVID-19?
The only thing people can remember is the US’ repeated accusations against China, apart from its astonishingly large number of infections and deaths. Washington has distracted the world’s attention.
The US is supposed to lead the world in establishing a global anti-pandemic front. But it continued to criticize the World Health Organization (WHO), and announced it would sever ties with the body.
As long as its epidemic continues to spread, the global anti-virus fight can hardly take a fundamental turn for the better.
In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:27 am
Coronavirus update: U.S. COVID-19 cases climb above 2.9 million Published: July 7, 2020
US hits 3M coronavirus cases – about a quarter of the world's total. What number will spark societal changes to slow exponential rise? Marco della Cava and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY • July 8, 2020
The USA has 3 million documented cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a virulent bug that crawled into the national consciousness early in the year and is likely to consume the rest of it.
The grim milestone reached Wednesday represents roughly a quarter of the world’s cases and the same percentage of its deaths.
Though many Americans may be numb to the growing coronavirus toll, avoiding the reality will probably make matters worse.
Consider these statistics: It took the USA a little more than three months to hit 1 million cases on April 28. It took about half that time, 44 days, to get to 2 million on June 11 and only 26 days to reach 3 million on July 8. By that gauge, if no new measures are taken, 4 million cases could be tallied as soon as July 22.
The USA leads an unenviable group. Its 3 million cases for a nation of 330 million beats out Brazil’s 1.7 million cases (210 million population), India’s 742,000 cases (1.4 billion) and Russia’s 699,000 cases (145 million), according to statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. figure dwarfs the 85,000 cases in China, where the virus is thought to have originated. Even allowing for potential underreporting by Chinese authorities, China’s 1.4 billion people make its per capita infection rate one in 16,000. Here, one in every 110 Americans has tested positive for the virus.
After reaching the 3 million mark in record time, a few elected officials seem ready to slow the pace of business reopenings. Others, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, remain steadfast in their desire to prioritize the economy in a politically charged climate that has turned masks into a divisive symbol.
One reason could be that the number of those killed by the virus – 131,000 – hasn't spiked, confounding scientists and encouraging those opposed to renewed shutdowns, including President Donald Trump, who insisted schools fully reopen in the fall despite the growing number of cases.
COVID-19 deaths long ago rocketed past annual suicides (47,000), common flu (55,000), diabetes (83,000) and Alzheimer's disease (121,000) and is fast coming up on strokes (146,000). Those are the U.S. figures for an average year. The virus has done its damage in less than half that time.
"Like a runner coming from behind in a macabre race, it has surpassed the death toll of many diseases so many Americans consider important," says Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "People may get numb to the numbers, until it strikes someone near them."
Another problem, Woolf says, is the delayed and sometimes nonexistent impact of the virus.
“Human beings are used to learning from their behaviors with the immediate response. You touch a hot stove, and you get the results right away," he says. "With this, the people going out and partying and going to the beach and so forth all occurs weeks before the hospitalizations start increasing, so there’s less opportunity for society to learn their lesson from some of these behaviors."
Death may be the only motivating factor capable of changing U.S. hygiene habits and reopening plans, says Carolyn Marvin, Frances Yates emeritus professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
"If people are truly inoculated to the notion that this virus is dangerous, it will take dead people in their own personal experience to change their minds," Marvin says.
There are various examples of just such conversions: A Florida ride-share driver said he thought the virus was a distraction created by the government, until he contracted it.
Marvin says such isolated revelations won't pierce the "echo chamber that is conservative radio and TV, which, if you listen to it often as I do, argues that no one is sick, the numbers are made up and the testing is corrupt."
Trump supporter Rush Limbaugh said on his radio talk show last month that "you can't believe the virus numbers" and that they are being trumpeted only to harm the president's chances for reelection in November.
US coronavirus response: 'It will go away'
Some health experts are unsparing in their views of how the United States mishandled its response to the coronavirus. Although Europe – especially Italy – was hit hard by the virus, numbers in many countries have steadily declined thanks to stiff quarantine rules. New Zealand eradicated the virus from its island nation.
The U.S. response, despite warnings from the spike in Wuhan, China, in January, was "almost like a delusional level of unpreparedness, that we were somehow superior, and we’re dramatically paying the price for that," says Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
On Jan. 22, Trump said things in the USA were "going to be just fine." On March 10, he told a meeting of Republican governors, "Just stay calm, it will go away." A month later, most states started putting their citizens in self-quarantine.
Despite the nation's surging virus cases, the Trump administration continues to pull away from the world on the topic of once and future pandemics.
Tuesday, Trump announced the United States would pull out of funding the World Health Organization, stripping away a large source of the group's funding.
"Our government has doubled down on the mistrust of science, the mistrust of public health that got us in trouble in the first place," Metzl says.
Few states have been immune to the mounting coronavirus case toll. Some have been harder hit than others, including Florida, Texas, Georgia and Arizona – where state leaders pressed for early reopenings.
The spike in virus cases is probably the result of a variety of factors. These include the arrival of summer’s heat and a desire to resume normal activities and a general misconception by younger Americans that they were not at risk of contracting COVID-19.
A growing number of people in their 20s and 30s are ending up in intensive care units and on ventilators, causing officials from Ohio to California to shutter bars and other businesses that draw large numbers of often-unmasked revelers.
Getting this segment of the population to take the virus threat seriously will be a critical part of driving the numbers down in time for the fall semester to begin at campuses across the nation. Many universities cut back on the number of students allowed on campus for the coming academic year, and in some cases, professors will teach only online.
"The more we learn about this disease, the more we realize that many young people may not necessarily get sick enough to go to the hospital, but they can get very sick, put them out of action for weeks at a time," Anthony Fauci says.
Anthony Fauci, who serves as the president's embattled point man on the virus, notes that the average age of those getting infected with the coronavirus is about 15 years younger than a few months ago.
"The more we learn about this disease, the more we realize that many young people may not necessarily get sick enough to go to the hospital, but they can get very sick, put them out of action for weeks at a time," Fauci says.
Invincibility of youth a virus stimulant
After states eased stay-at-home restrictions several weeks ago, reports abounded of high school and college-age revelers partying in bars, on boats and in lakes, often with no masks or social distancing. There have even been tales of "COVID-parties'' where young people tried to get infected.
Someone who has the virus but isn't sick and doesn't show symptoms can transmit it to more vulnerable groups.
"It's harder to put your social life on hold when you're a young adult," says Elissa Epel, professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco.
Epel says behavioral change comes only when the perception of personal risk grows. "If the case can be made to this group that 'your risk is my risk,' then that may help them see the gravity of their behavior," she says.
That dawning realization of co-dependence faces a battle from centuries of American exceptionalism, the notion that the rules that apply to other nations don't apply here.
Mother Nature knows only one set of rules, experts say, and those fly in the face of a belief that somehow the nation's coronavirus numbers will decline without any measured sacrifice by its citizens.
“When you have a pandemic and you need to have a science-based response to it by everybody in the society, and you have a population that culturally doesn’t trust science and doesn’t trust authority, you get problems like we’re seeing now, people arguing over masks,'' says John Swartzberg, professor emeritus at the University of California-Berkeley who specializes in infectious diseases.
"From outside the country, people would look and say, ‘Are they crazy? Why are they fighting about this?’ ” he says.
To slow the race to 4 million cases, Swartzberg says, people must accept that life may no longer be the same and understand that recovering what we can of that past life depends on how we meet this moment.
"This (virus) is something unique to our generation, and we don’t know how to respond to this, because we’ve never been told that our world has changed and we can’t continue to live the way we were living," he says. "That’s a big pill to take."
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Sun Jul 12, 2020 2:15 am
For first time, U.S. records more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases in single day NBC News | DENNIS ROMERO AND AUSTIN MULLEN Jul 11th 2020 10:43AM
The United States saw another record day for new coronavirus cases, surpassing 70,000 for the first time, according to an NBC News tally Friday.
The record high came follows multiple case peaks since June, including 45,557 single-day diagnoses reported June 24, a 45,942 one-day increase June 27 and more than 46,500 new cases recorded Tuesday.
Sunbelt states experiencing surges including California, Florida, Texas and Georgia contributed to the record tally. California reported 7,798 new cases Friday, and state officials said they're considering releasing about 8,000 inmates from a prison system battered by the virus.
In South Florida, NBC Miami reported hat seven area hospitals have no intensive care beds available as a result of being inundated with virus patients.
Texas reported 95 coronavirus-related deaths Friday as Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the state would revert to a "lockdown" if the numbers don't improve and mask-wearing doesn't become more widespread.
In Houston, the region's 12 busiest hospitals are increasingly turning down new emergency room patients and have been using the space for coronavirus intensive care.
In Georgia, officials recorded 4,484 cases Friday. NBC affiliate WXIA reported it was a single-day case record.
The three U.S. counties with the highest number of daily cases Friday are Los Angeles, Chicago's Cook, the Phoenix area's Maricopa, respectively, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
Last week U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, warned in a memo to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus that personal protective equipment supplies were getting low.
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Subject: Re: New Information- Infected- Deaths- Shutdowns- Covid19 Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:02 am
Coronavirus: Florida sets new state daily case record of 15,299 July 12, 2020 | BBC
The state, with just 7% of the US population, surpassed the previous daily record held by California.
Florida, which began lifting coronavirus restrictions in May, has proved vulnerable due to tourism and an elderly population.
Its figures eclipse the worst daily rates seen in New York in April.
Florida also registered an additional 45 deaths.
The state would rank fourth in the world for new cases if it were a country, according to a Reuters analysis. More than 40 hospitals in Florida say their intensive care facilities are at full capacity.The latest figures were released a day after Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida reopened, but with safety measures including mask-wearing and widespread use of sanitiser.
The caseload in Florida has continued to rise despite Republican Governor Ron DeSantis ordering some bars to close again last month.
The top adviser on the White House coronavirus taskforce, Dr Anthony Fauci, had criticised lockdown easing in the state, saying the data on infections did not support the move. Mr DeSantis has also declined to make mask-wearing obligatory.
The issue of masks has become highly politicised in the United States, with opponents saying having to wear them encroaches on personal freedom. There have been demonstrations against masks and other coronavirus measures in several states.
But on Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared wearing a mask in the public for the first time after previously casting doubt on their usefulness. He was visiting the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington, where he met wounded soldiers and health care workers.
"I've never been against masks but I do believe they have a time and a place," he said as he left the White House.
The United States overall has been exceeding new daily totals of 60,000 cases for the past few days. Other states including Arizona, California and Texas continue to see a rising cases.
Since the pandemic hit the US, more than 134,000 people there have died with Covid-19.
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