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Elected officials blame rush to reopen as coronavirus cases hit record for 27th day
Source: Washington Post
Live updates: Elected officials blame rush to reopen as coronavirus cases hit record for 27th day
By Antonia Noori Farzan and Katie Shepherd
7/6/2020, 2:24:09 a.m.
With the number of coronavirus cases soaring in the United States, many elected officials are beginning to acknowledge that rushing to reopen was a mistake. Alarming indicators continued to mount over the Fourth of July weekend, with the rolling seven-day average for daily new cases hitting a record high for the 27th day in a row on Sunday.
“We’re right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York outbreak,” former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday, during an interview with “Face the Nation” on CBS.
To date, nearly 2.9 million coronavirus cases have been reported nationwide. At least 127,000 Americans have died of the virus.
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By Antonia Noori Farzan and Katie Shepherd
7/6/2020, 2:24:09 a.m.
With the number of coronavirus cases soaring in the United States, many elected officials are beginning to acknowledge that rushing to reopen was a mistake. Alarming indicators continued to mount over the Fourth of July weekend, with the rolling seven-day average for daily new cases hitting a record high for the 27th day in a row on Sunday.
“We’re right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York outbreak,” former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday, during an interview with “Face the Nation” on CBS.
To date, nearly 2.9 million coronavirus cases have been reported nationwide. At least 127,000 Americans have died of the virus.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/06/coronavirus-live-updates-us/
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Who could have ever possibly predicted something like this?
