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US reports RECORD jump in coronavirus cases as states mull tougher restrictions, blaming anything but packed protests
The US has broken its own record for the number of coronavirus cases recorded in a single day, with more than 38,000 new patients confirmed in the last 24 hours, topping a high set in April as some states see infections spike.
Some 38,672 new cases were reported on Wednesday, according to data collected by the Covid Tracking Project, breaking a previous record set on April 25 by 2,671 infections. The new milestone comes amid a resurgence of the virus across some regions of the country, particularly in southern states.
If the protests had absolutely nothing to do with this, then I guess we should just encourage everyone to continue mass gathering willy-nilly, while screaming directly into one another's faces. Seems like a great strategy to curtail the spread of an airborne respiratory disease https://t.co/0Qnro8LZ7s
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 25, 2020
Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, California and Missouri also each broke their own daily case records on Wednesday, the project’s data showed, added to 13 other states to do the same over the last five days.
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