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Coronavirus Live Updates: As Cases Top 3 Million, Fauci Cautions Against Misreading a Falling Death Rate

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/world/coronavirus-updates.html

President Trump made it official: The U.S. is pulling out of the World Health Organization. President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has tested positive. Hong Kong appears to have entered a third wave of infections.

RIGHT NOW President Trump pushed for schools to physically reopen in the fall, even as the pandemic has surged and overwhelmed education officials.

Here’s what you need to know:
As the U.S. passes 3 million virus cases, Fauci cautions against the ‘false narrative’ of a falling death rate.

Trump leans on local officials, who control schools, to reopen them in the fall.

The Trump administration sends formal notification that the U.S. will withdraw from the W.H.O. next year, July 2021.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, tests positive. He has been a skeptic of precautions.

At least five Republican senators will skip their party’s convention.
The fight over a drug supported by President Trump enters a new round.
Hong Kong, a model of virus prevention, confronts a ‘third wave’ of infections.


Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, cautioned on Tuesday that it was a “false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,” which President Trump, top White House officials and several governors have stressed in recent days.

Dr. Fauci’s comments came at an event Tuesday with Senator Doug Jones, Democrat of Alabama, as the United States surpassed three million cases on Tuesday, and some states that had hoped to be getting back to normal by now have instead been forced to reinstate restrictions and issue mandatory mask orders.

“By allowing yourself to get infected because of risky behavior, you are part of the propagation of the outbreak,” he said. “There are so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus. Don’t get yourself into false complacency.”

Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the Trump administration’s coronavirus response coordinator, conceded that officials had been surprised by its recent spread, especially among young people.

“None of us really anticipated the amount of community spread that began in really our 18-to-35-year-old age group,” Dr. Birx said in a brief appearance on an Atlantic Council panel. “This is an age group that was so good and so disciplined through March and April. But when they saw people out and about on social media, they all went out and about.”

The rate of new cases was rising quickly as the nation hit the three million mark, according to a New York Times database. Half a million new cases have been reported since June 26. Cases have risen in 37 states over the past two weeks, and this week the nation has been averaging roughly 50,000 new cases a day — double what it did in mid-June. And though President Trump dismissed the severity of the outbreak over the weekend, falsely claiming that “99 percent” of cases were “totally harmless,” leading health officials remain concerned.

On Tuesday, at least six states — Texas, California, Hawaii, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma — set single-day records for new cases; Texas recorded more than 9,200 cases. At least three — Arizona, Mississippi and Texas — reported their highest daily death totals of the pandemic.

People under 40 have made up a significant portion of new cases recorded in states with recent outbreaks, a sign of how the virus has spread in bars, restaurants and offices that have reopened.


https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/06/22/united-states-europe-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-comparison-sanjay-gupta-ldn-vpx.cnn