NY Times: Corona virus cases have risen 65% in 2 weeks

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The number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. is surging to levels not ever seen in the course of the pandemic.​ Infections nationwide have risen 65 percent over the past two weeks, including in several states that were among the first to reopen. By Saturday evening, more than 41,000 cases of the coronavirus had been announced across the U.S., including single-day records in Nevada, South Carolina and Florida; above Miami on Friday.​ Here’s the latest map and case count.​ Leaders are urgently rethinking their strategies for curbing the spread, which the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said were “not working.”​ “The result is a realization for many Americans that however much they have yearned for a return to normalcy, their leaders have failed to control the coronavirus pandemic,” our reporters write in an analysis. “And there is little clarity on what comes next.”​

Some Mississippi intensive care units are at capacity and residents of Texas’s largest county, which includes Houston, received an emergency alert of the highest level, urging residents to remain at home. The number of infections is more than 10 times higher than the counted number of cases in six regions of the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.