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U.S. sets new single day record for COVID-19 cases. What an absolute disaster of a country.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9587946.html

The United States has set a new daily record for new daily coronavirus cases as governor’s in some states are forced to pause their reopening’s as infections surge.

The country confirmed a record-breaking 40,401 new cases of the disease on Thursday, surpassing the country's last highest total in April by more than 3,000, The Hill reported.

The incremental rise in numbers in at least 26 states have forced governors in certain states to pause the re-opening of their economies. In Texas, governor Greg Abbott announced that the state would be pausing any further re-openings as the recorded number of cases in the state surpassed 132,000.

Missouri, Nevada, and Alabama also posted record daily highs, according to tallies from The Washington Post. “It is snowballing. We will most certainly see more people die as a result of this spike,” said Dr Marc Boom, president of Houston Methodist Hospital.

CDC Director Robert Redfield on Thursday warned that the scale of the infection across the country is still likely unknown.

“This virus causes so much asymptomatic infection,” Dr Redfield said according to The Hill. “We probably recognised about 10 percent of the outbreak.”