Two months after last peak, US hits grim new record in COVID-19 cases

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There were 38,672 positive COVID-19 tests reported in the United States today, a new record high, according to the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer organization housed at The Atlantic that collects data on the pandemic. The count surged past the previous high of 36,001, reported on April 25.

Early in the pandemic, the US caseload was driven by outbreaks in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Those states have largely controlled the transmission of the virus, and daily case counts are down. The outbreak is now accelerating in the South and the West. States like Arizona, Florida, California, and South Carolina — which had relatively low numbers of cases early on — are home to the lion’s share of the newly diagnosed cases.

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The US is testing more people for COVID-19 now than it was in April, but that’s not the only reason for the skyrocketing case numbers. The percentage of the tests done in the country that come back positive is ticking back up, as well. In Arizona, for example, over 20 percent of tests are coming back positive. At the start of the month in that state, only around 10 percent of tests were positive

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The spikes in some states began a few weeks after those same states lifted stay-at-home orders, even though they hadn’t met some expert-recommended benchmarks.

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