The increase in coronavirus cases has reached a new record.
On Thursday, the US recorded more than 70,000 new cases of COVID-19, compared to 20,000 per day in June, according to aggregated data from Johns Hopkins University, the COVID Monitoring Project, and other independent estimates from the Washington Post. and Reuters.
The disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, COVID-19, had infected at least 13.8 million people worldwide and 3,576,221 in the US as of Friday morning. It had killed 589,978 people worldwide and 138,358 in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
The situation seems particularly bleak in the south and southwest of the country. Texas reported more than 10,000 new cases for the third consecutive day and 129 deaths, while Florida reported almost 14,000 new cases and 156 deaths from the virus, the Associated Press reported.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday, Fauci said it was time to regroup. “This was avoidable,” he said, adding: “Citizens of the state or city had the impression that they were going from one blockade to another. [throwing] caution to the wind. “
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades seemed to point to the response to the coronavirus pandemic by the Trump administration, which has called for the reopening of schools, and state lawmakers, who have enacted a mosaic of policies.
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