U.S. trends are now going “in the right direction,” Adm said. Brett Giroir, the official Trump administration overseeing U.S. state coronavirus testing, and the decay shares part of security protocols such as masks and social distance.
At least 20 states are seeing a downward trend in new cases compared to the previous week, while 18 states are reporting a constant number of new cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
State leaders who have reported on leveling out new cases also attribute it to compliance with safety guidelines. In Washington state, where health officials say the rate of new cases is slower, Secretary of State Dr. John Wiesman said “face masks have made a difference.”
Despite the hopeful signs, now is not the time to drop or reduce measures, Giroir warned.
“This could turn around very quickly if we are not careful,” Giroir said. “We saw that early after Memorial Day and the few weeks after that kind of started the current outbreak.”
Georgia, Texas, Florida report the most infections per capita
The governor, like the governor of Georgia, never issued a statewide mask mandate.
A report by the Coronavirus Task Force on August 16, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, states that Georgia was in the red zone and recommended that the state do more to fight coronavirus, including closing bars and gyms. , limit indoor dining at restaurants and reduce social gatherings to 10 or fewer people.
“If we’re the highest (per) capital in the state right now, it’s because Texas and Florida and Arizona and some of the states that peaked a week or two ago are on the downclimb, “said Kemp.
Kemp’s office told CNN in a statement that the state health department continues to “encourage Georgians to wear a mask, look at their distance, wash their hands and follow public health guidelines.” Kemp press secretary Cody Hall said the 7-day business average of the state is down and hospitalizations are down, adding to the state’s transfer rate is 0.85.
“The data is encouraging, but we can not take our foot off the gas,” Hall said in a statement.
How universities respond
Already, more than a dozen colleges have reported cases on campus with outbreaks that were recovered from off-campus meetings, athletics, Greek life, dormancy or trapped during tests for movement.
The University of Mississippi said in a memo Wednesday 15 student-athletes and one employee tested positive for the virus. Of the 15 athletes, 11 are on the same team, but the university did not say from which sports the positive tests came.
At the University of Connecticut, several students were evicted from their campus housing after the university found they were holding an “unapproved meeting in a room of a dormitory.”
“Students wore no masks, closely assembled and cared not only for their own health and well-being, but that of others at a time when UConn is working to protect our community and resume lessons in the context of a deadly global pandemic,” “Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, Eleanor JB Daugherty, and Executive Director of Residential Life, Pamela Schipani, wrote Tuesday in a letter to the community.
Fourteen Drake University students were asked to leave campus for two weeks after violating an agreement signed by students describing safety protocols.
The University of Notre Dame announced all undergraduate classes for the next two weeks as the university tries to get a spike in cases under control. Michigan State University has also announced that the year will begin remotely for undergraduate students. In New York, Ithaca College announced that distance instruction will be extended to students for the entire fall semester.
CNN’s Amanda Watts, Jill Martin, Melissa Alonso, Annie Grayer and Andy Rose contributed to this report.
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