Enlarge / Coronavirus testing in Wisconsin, November 2. (credit score: Getty | Star Tribune)
The US on Wednesday reached an alarming milestone in its failed pandemic response: a day’s tally of recent coronavirus instances reached over 100,000 for the primary time. However the document was short-lived. At this time, Thursday, new instances surpassed 116,000.
The nation’s third spike in instances is now towering over these earlier than it, which noticed peaks of every day new instances no greater than round 76,500. It’s unclear how excessive the brand new peak will in the end get, however it’s possible that Friday will see yet one more scary document.
General, the nation has seen a 20 p.c leap in instances since final week, based on The COVID Monitoring Challenge. Whereas practically each state within the nation is seeing instances enhance to some extent, the areas propelling the rise are the Midwest and the Mountain West. Actually, the Midwest’s present variety of instances per capita are nicely above that of some other area throughout the pandemic, the Challenge notes in a weblog publish Thursday.
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