The United States has today reached two million confirmed coronavirus cases, the highest in the world. In response, Coronavirus War Room Director Zac Petkanas issued the following statement:
“Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been an utter catastrophe. His lack of leadership resulted in the United States becoming the first country in the world to hit one million confirmed coronavirus cases, and now in just a little over a month, the US doubled that number.
“Trump’s failed leadership has made this crisis worse at every turn. The number of infections would be a fraction of what they are if he’d just taken the crisis seriously instead of downplaying the virus and predicting it will just go away on its own.
“Now, coronavirus is surging in states across the country after Trump has basically given up combating the virus and recklessly rushed the nation’s reopening against the advice of medical experts.
“Here’s the bottom line: too many families have lost loved ones, and millions are struggling in an economy that is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression as a direct result of Trump’s failed leadership.
“And with every day that goes by, more and more Americans are asking themselves how the President of the United States could have let it get this bad.”
BACKGROUND ON VIRUS SURGING
More than a dozen states and Puerto Rico are recording their highest averages of new cases since the pandemic began
Hospitalizations in at least nine states have been on the rise since Memorial Day.
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Texas has seen a 36 percent increase in new cases since Memorial Day, with a record high of hospitalizations as of early Tuesday afternoon.
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Arizona has reported a 49 percent increase in hospitalizations since Memorial Day.
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Arkansas has had an 88 percent increase in hospitalizations since Memorial Day.
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12 counties in South Carolina have reached 75 percent of hospital capacity or greater.