WaPo:
The novel coronavirus is surging in several Midwestern states that had not previously seen high infection rates while average daily deaths remained elevated Monday in Southern and Western states hit with a resurgence of the disease after lifting some restrictions earlier this summer.
Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma are among those witnessing the largest percentage surge of infections over the past week, while, adjusted for population, the number of new cases in Florida, Mississippi and Alabama still outpaced all other states, according to a Washington Post analysis of health data.
Experts also see worrying trends emerging in major East Coast and Midwest cities, and they anticipate major outbreaks in college towns as classes resume in August.
The University of Texas at Austin notified students that parties are prohibited when the campus reopens in three weeks. The school cited city health guidelines prohibiting groups larger than 10 people and requiring a mask when out in public.
- and in case you needed further indication that our "president" is either out of touch or a lying sack of shit or just flat-out incompetent -
Trump also said the United States is doing much better dealing with the virus than most other countries — a claim inconsistent with the facts — and accused the news media of trying to make him and the country look “as bad as possible.”
At least 4.6 million coronavirus cases and 151,000 fatalities have been reported in the United States since February.
Despite growing momentum in the search for a vaccine and Trump’s confident assessment Monday that “we’re on pace to have a vaccine available this year, maybe far in advance of the end of the year,” the head of the World Health Organization warned “there’s no silver bullet at the moment, and there might never be.”
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