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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 7 July 2020
Continued from Front
In Florida's Miami-Dade
County, population 2.7 mil-
lion, Mayor Carlos Gimenez
issued an emergency or-
der closing restaurants and
certain other indoor plac-
es, including gyms and va-
cation rentals, seven weeks
after they were allowed to
reopen.
"We want to ensure that
our hospitals continue to
have the staffing necessary
to save lives," Gimenez said
in a statement.
Hair salons and stores will re-
main open along with hotel
pools and summer camps.
Beaches will reopen on
Tuesday after they being
closed over the weekend.
"But if we see crowding
and people not following
the public health rules, I
will be forced to close the
beaches again," the mayor
warned. Hospitalizations
across the state have been
ticking upward, with nearly
1,700 patients admitted in
the past seven days com-
pared with 1,200 the pre-
vious week. Five hospitals
in the St. Petersburg area A sign advising social distance is posted at a closed parking lot to Ocean Beach during the coronavirus outbreak, in San Francisco,
were out of intensive care Sunday, July 5, 2020.
unit beds, officials said. Associated Press
Miami-Dade said it has
more than 1,600 corona- pacity. Confirmed cases period from around 600 to Resolve to Save Lives, a House chief of staff Mark
virus patients now in the surpassed 100,000, and about 510, in what experts nonprofit organization that Meadows said that Presi-
hospital, more than double more than half of those in- say reflects advances in works to prevent epidem- dent Donald Trump sees
from two weeks ago. Mi- fected, or over 62,000, are treatment and prevention ics. Meanwhile, three of the the issue as a state matter.
ami's Baptist Hospital had under 44 years old, state as well as the large share top U.S. medical organiza- "We're allowing our local
only four of its 88 ICU beds health officials said. of cases among young tions issued an open letter governors and our local
available. Around the country, health adults, who are more likely urging Americans to wear mayors to weigh in on that,"
"If we continue to increase officials have warned that than older ones to survive masks, social distance he said.
at the pace we have been, the surge is being driven in COVID-19. and wash hands often to In New York City, once the
we won't have enough large part by younger peo- But deaths are considered help stop "the worst public most lethal hot spot in the
ventilators, enough rooms," ple who are disregarding a lagging indicator — that health crisis in generations." country, nail salons and
said Dr. David De La Zerda, the social distancing rules is, it takes time for people The American Medical As- dog runs were allowed to
a respiratory specialist at and that they could easily to get sick and die. And sociation, American Nurses reopen but indoor dining
Miami's Jackson Memorial spread the virus to older, experts are worried the Association and American was postponed indefinitely.
Hospital. Officials in Texas more vulnerable people, downward trend in deaths Hospital Association issued New York Gov. Andrew
likewise said hospitals are such as their parents and could reverse itself. the plea in the absence of Cuomo said he was con-
in danger of being over- grandparents. The trajectory of the virus a mask-wearing order from cerned about reports of
whelmed. Hospitalizations The coronavirus is blamed following the July Fourth Washington and said steps large gatherings over the
statewide surged past for over a half-million celebrations is being close- taken early on that helped holiday weekend in New
8,000 for the first time over deaths worldwide, includ- ly watched as states weigh slow the spread of CO- York City, on Fire Island and
the July Fourth weekend, a ing more than 130,000 in whether to reopen schools VID-19 "were too quickly other places.
more than fourfold increase the U.S., according to the in the coming months. abandoned." "I understand people are
in the past month. Houston tally kept by Johns Hopkins "If we don't control things The White House again re- fatigued," he said. "We've
officials said intensive care University. The number of now, we're going to see jected calls for a nation- been doing this for 128
units there have exceeded confirmed infections na- things happening into mid- wide order to wear face days. I get it. But it doesn't
capacity. tionwide stood at 2.9 mil- August to late August," coverings. Appearing on change the facts, and we
Along the border with Mex- lion, though the real num- said Dr. Cyrus Shahpar of "Fox and Friends," White have to stay smart." q
ico, two severely ill patients ber is believed to be 10
were flown hundreds of times higher.
miles north to Dallas and New cases per day nation-
San Antonio because hos- wide have hit record levels
pitals in the Rio Grande Val- well over 50,000. The daily
ley were full. count has surged more
In Arizona, the number of than 80% over the past two
people hospitalized with weeks, according to an As-
COVID-19 topped 3,200, sociated Press analysis.
a new high, and hospitals Average deaths per day
statewide were at 89% ca- have fallen over the same