US cases surge to new peak as Trump administration goes to war with science

Enlarge / A person wears a protective face mask outside Trump International Hotel & Tower New York. (credit: Getty | Noam Galai)

The US is climbing toward a third peak in the coronavirus pandemic as the Trump Administration continues to belittle public health experts and their advice.

The country's seven-day average of new daily cases has increased about 33 percent from just two weeks ago, according to tracking by the COVID Tracking Project. On Friday, there were 68,000 new cases recorded, a high not seen since July. The current seven-day average is around 57,000 new cases per day.

The surge is diffuse. Last week, 17 states set their own new records for cases in a single day. Those states include nine of 12 states in the Midwest and six of 11 in the west, according to the tracking project. Altogether, the US once again has the highest seven-day average of new cases of any country in the world, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University researchers.

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