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COVID-19 is spreading fastest in the United States
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[July 14, 2020]
By Chris Canipe and Lisa Shumaker
(Reuters) - The United States reported over
400,000 new COVID-19 cases for the week ended July 12, up 21% from the
previous seven days, and deaths linked to the respiratory disease rose
nationally last week for the first time since mid-April.
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More than 5,000 people died from COVID-19 from July 6 to July 12, up
46% from the prior week, according to a Reuters analysis of data
from The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the
outbreak.
About a dozen states have reported increases in deaths for at least
two straight weeks, including California, Florida and Texas. (Open
https://tmsnrt.rs/2WTOZDR in an external browser for a Reuters
interactive)
Testing for COVID-19 rose by 7.4% in the United States last week and
set a new record high on July 10, with over 823,000 tests performed,
the Reuters analysis found.
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Nationally, 8.8% of tests came back positive for the novel
coronavirus, up from 7.5% the prior week and 5% three weeks ago.
The World Health Organization considers a positivity rate above 5%
to be a cause for concern because it suggests there are more cases
in the community that have not yet been uncovered.
Thirty-one states had positivity test rates above 5%, according to
the analysis, including Arizona at 27%, South Carolina at 19% and
Florida at 19%.
(GRAPHIC: Tracking the novel coronavirus in the U.S. -
https://graphics.reuters.com/
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA/0100B5K8423/index.html)
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Nationally, new COVID-19 cases have risen every week for six straight weeks.
Forty-six states reported more new cases of COVID-19 last week compared to the
previous week, the analysis found. Cases are only falling on a weekly basis in
New York, Tennessee, New Jersey and Delaware.
Many states have temporarily halted the reopening of their economies or ordered
some businesses to close.
While Southern and Western states are seeing the biggest increase in cases,
infections are also rising in the Midwest with Minnesota cases up 60%, Missouri
up 40% and Iowa up 30%.
(Graphic: World-focused tracker with country-by-country interactive -
https://graphics.reuters.com/
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/COUNTRIES/
oakveqlyvrd/index.html?id=united-kingdom)
(Reporting by Chris Canipe in Kansas City, Missouri, and Lisa Shumaker in
Chicago; Additional reporting by Samuel Hart; Editing by Tiffany Wu)
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