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Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:31 PM Jul 2020

This Is Why the U.S. Is 'Losing the War With Coronavirus, Doctor Warns

For a brief shining moment at the end of May, Americans may have had hope that the COVID-19 pandemic was behind us. But by mid-June, the coronavirus started surging in some southern and western states. Now, just a few short weeks later, 40 out of 50 U.S. states are seeing new COVID case numbers climb again. "Put simply, we are losing the war with the SARS-CoV-2 virus," Mark Kortepeter, MD, an infectious disease doctor and professor of epidemiology at University of Nebraska Medical Center, wrote for Forbes.

According to Kortepeter, the "increases in new cases of infection are not surprising." As he sees it, states that reopened more aggressively are seeing COVID surges, while "the states in the northeast that were hammered during the first wave are being a bit more cautious and seeing declining or stable numbers of cases."

Currently, the states in the most "critical" COVID situations—according to data collected by Covid Act Now—are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, and South Carolina, most of which reopened at the end of April or beginning of May.

Kortepeter compared reopening too quickly amid the pandemic to speeding down a highway. "[If] a car in front of you stops, you will put your foot on the brakes. If you let up on the brakes too soon, you will crash," he writes. "This is what has been occurring across the country. As businesses reopen, they have let up on the brakes. If it occurs too quickly, a 'crash' is inevitable."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/this-is-why-the-us-is-losing-the-war-with-coronavirus-doctor-warns/ar-BB16jbPM?li=BBnb7Kz

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