US Coronavirus: US nears 7 million Covid-19 cases as 23 states report rising numbers - CNN - 0 views
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Nearly half of US states are reporting a rise in cases of Covid-19 as the country nears 7 million cases nationwide -- yet another grim milestone.
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About 16 states' case numbers are holding steady, while 11 -- Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia -- saw a decline.
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California became the first state to surpass 800,000 infections, according to Johns Hopkins data. Texas is second, with about 747,500 cases, followed by Florida with some 695,000 cases.
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he rate of new cases is up 9% from last week, with a seven-day average of more than 43,000 cases nationwide.
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"Rather than say, 'A second wave,' why don't we say, 'Are we prepared for the challenge of the fall and the winter?'" said Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert.
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More than 90% of the population remains susceptible to the virus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said this week.
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Across the US, more than 6.9 million people have already been infected with the virus and at least 203,000 Americans have died, per Johns Hopkins data.
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Cities, counties and states that have managed to bring their Covid-19 cases down should now work to prevent "surges that inevitably will occur if you're not doing the kinds of public health measures that we're talking about," according to Fauci.
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About 12 states are now seeing mask usage rates above 50%, according to researchers from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
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If 95% of Americans wore masks, more than 95,000 lives could be saved by January, the IHME projects.
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"If we listen to the public health measures, not only would we diminish the effect of Covid-19, we might get away with a very, very light flu season if we combine that with getting the flu vaccine," Fauci said.
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"I don't want to seem preachy about it," he told New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy during a livestream Thursday on Facebook. "But right now, the infections in the country are driven more by young people, 19 to 25."
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While vaccines for Covid-19 are being tested, the growing skepticism around them is becoming an "enormous" problem,
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It's a problem, Schaffner says, "because once we do develop a vaccine, obviously we want people to accept it, but there's growing skepticism ... in the general population."
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US health experts have previously said it's likely many Americans will opt out of getting the Covid-19 vaccine once one is widely available.
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And now 62% of Americans believe political pressure from the Trump administration will cause the US Food and Drug Administration to rush approval of a Covid-19 vaccine before Election Day, according to a new health tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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"These are respected, trained people who are much better at models and statistics and all that other stuff than any of us are," he said during an online conversation with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta organized by Emory University.