Coronavirus surges are making people think these 7 states will have to shut down again

[Andy Meek]

• At least seven US states may be on the road to a coronavirus shutdown again -- or, at a minimum, a pause or rollback in their reopening plans.
• That's because of spikes in coronavirus cases that have public health officials worried the virus is starting to reach the point of being out of control, straining hospital systems and resulting in easy community spread.
• The states are mostly in the southern US.

Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, tweeted a few days ago that much of the data stemming from the coronavirus pandemic in the US is "very concerning" right now. "Houston, we have a problem," he lamented in his tweet. "Looking at 7 day averages, Cases rising in 43 states. % of tests + going up in 39 states. Hospitalizations? up in 29 states Deaths? Up in 28 states."

The latest data from Johns Hopkins University shows that there have been almost 3.5 million reported coronavirus infections in the US now and almost 137,000 confirmed deaths from the virus. The inexorable rise in both of those totals, according to White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, is attributable at least in part to many US states rushing to come out of a lockdown status and reopen their economies. "We did not shut down entirely, and that’s the reason why we went up,” Fauci said during a virtual conversation hosted by Stanford Medicine (via Mercury News). “We started to come down, and then we plateaued at a level that was really quite high, about 20,000 infections a day. Then as we started to reopen, we’re seeing the surges that we’re seeing today as we speak.”

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