It’s hard to overstate how much the U.S. coronavirus outbreak has deteriorated this past week, with each day ushering in new, disturbing records.
On Thursday, there were more than 150,000 new infections. It was only last week that the U.S. reached a record of more than 100,000 infections in a single day for the first time ever.
“This is the worst the pandemic has been,” says Dr. Preeti Malani, chief health officer in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Michigan.
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