The Fourth of July Weekend Threw America ’s Coronavirus Failures Into Stark Relief

If you’re American, you can be forgiven if you didn’t particularly feel like celebrating your country during this year’s Fourth of July holiday. If you’re not, your feelings toward the U.S., whether pity or schadenfreude, are understandable.
The majority of the other early epicenters of the pandemic have largely figured this out, their curves crashing downwards and a sense of optimism returning and civic pride growing. But the U.S., despite being perhaps the nation best prepared to handle a pandemic of this scale and scope, has epically foundered. On July 2, the U.S. tallied over 50,000 new daily cases for the first time. That number was shortly passed the following day, when 54,461 cases were recorded. Whatever gains had been made in May and June have been wiped out, and then some.

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Source: TIME: Health - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elijah Wolfson Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news