With the US making no progress on average daily Covid-19 cases last month, officials fear a coming crisis

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Mon, 2020-10-05 10:56 — mike kraft

With the US making no progress on average daily Covid-19 cases last month, officials fear a coming crisis The US made no progress in lowering its baseline of Covid-19 cases in the past month despite experts' urgent admonitions to reduce the daily count of new cases before the challenging fall and winter seasons. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

(CNN)The US made no progress in lowering its baseline of Covid-19 cases in the past month despite experts' urgent admonitions to reduce the daily count of new cases before the challenging fall and winter seasons.

Hours before President Trump announced Friday that he and his wife tested positive for the virus, the average of daily new cases nationwide stood around 42,785. That's about 500 more than on September 1, data from Johns Hopkins University shows, and more than double what the US saw in June, when lockdown restrictions began to ease.

"No matter how you slice it, that's not good," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said last week. "We're looking at 40,000 new cases per day. That's unacceptable and that is what we've got to get down before we go into the more problematic winter."...

If 95% of Americans wore masks, around 96,000 lives could be saved by January, according to projections from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)...

...25 states (are)reporting more new Covid-19 cases than the previous week.

On Friday, Kentucky reported 1,039 new cases of Covid-19, the second-highest number of new cases the state has reported since the pandemic began, Gov. Andy Beshear said in pre-recorded remarks he shared on his Facebook account.

The state has seen the highest four-day period of new cases in the last four days, Beshear said.... ..

...Nebraska reported its highest number of new Covid-19 cases since May, while in Wisconsin, local and state leaders sounded the alarm after the state recorded its highest Covid-19 death count and hospitalizations....

Also see: As cold weather arrives, U.S. States see record increases i COVID-19 cases

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/as-cold-weather-arrives-u-s-states-see-record-increases-in-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN26P0K8

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