Complains about case counting; another record-setting day
By Antonia Noori Farzan, Teo Armus, Jacqueline Dupree, Siobhán O'Grady, Brittany Shammas, Hannah Knowles, John Wagner, Taylor Telford and Lateshia Beachum
July 20, 2020 at 12:19 p.m. EDT
Sunday marked the 41st straight day that the seven-day average for new daily coronavirus infections in the United States trended upward. Six months after the novel coronavirus reached America, more than 3.7 million cases have been detected, and at least 137,000 people have died. The global death toll has surpassed 600,000, fueled in part by recent surges in states such as Texas, Florida and California.
President Trump .. showed himself to be particularly misinformed about the basics of the virus that has been ravaging the nation. He told Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday that “young people that would heal in a day” made up many of the new cases.
“They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test,” Trump said ...
Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina all set new single-day records for new cases on Sunday. Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa and five other states have seen their seven-day averages for daily new fatalities rise by more than 40 percent in the past week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/20/covid-live-updates-us/
