Dr. Osterholm said that recent data show the rate of new cases has been level in eight states, increasing in 22 states and decreasing in the rest. The increase is not simply because of more widely available testing, the experts said, noting that an especially worrisome development is a rise in hospitalizations in several states. recently projected that by July 4, coronavirus deaths in the United States will likely jump from the current level of about 115,000 to somewhere between 124,000 and 140,000. Dr. Bhadelia said the rise in cases in some states, especially in the South and West, suggested that “we opened too early in those states. We didn’t have the ability to basically trace down those chains of transmission and stop them once people started mingling again.”

Source: New York Times June 14, 2020 19:52 UTC