US coronavirus: 21 states hit their peak 7-day average of new Covid-19 cases

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Source: CNN

Much of the US continues to report an upward trend in coronavirus cases, with 59,494 new cases reported nationwide on Wednesday alone, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

As of Thursday morning, the nation is now averaging 52,345 new cases a day, up 16% from the previous week, a trend that concerns health experts as we head into the cooler months.

"This is a very ominous sign. I think we're in for a pretty bad fall and winter," said Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.

"This is the time when we could be entering one of the worst periods of our epidemic and one of our worst periods in modern American public health," he said. "I'm very worried for the nation."

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1. U.S. battles fall coronavirus surge as states see record new cases

As expected, even though cases are surging due to Trump's mishandling of COVID again, Trump is doubling down by seeking to accelerate efforts to drop social distancing measures in a misguided effort to implement a herd immunity strategy.

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The fall coronavirus surge has arrived. Seventeen states across the U.S. are now seeing surges unlike anything they've experienced in this pandemic, and no state in the country is seeing a sustained decline.

The country is closing in on 8 million total cases of COVID-19, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The number of new infections in the U.S. hit nearly 60,000 on Wednesday, which is a single-day high not seen since the summer.

Hotspots are flaring across the Midwest, with smaller, rural hospitals fighting to hold on.

"It's not a joke when we say we swim in COVID," said Dr. Scott Samlan, an emergency room doctor in Hammond, Indiana, a state that hit a record number for cases on Thursday.