New coronavirus surge in the US: What you need to know
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New coronavirus surge in the US: What you need to know

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Several states report spike in hospitalisations and jumps in new cases, raising concerns of a ‘third wave’. “Things are starting to move in a concerning direction,” Justin Lessler, associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Al Jazeera. Learn more: https://t.co/1nMYQAjpSq pic.twitter.com/iObgUYrTeE — CDC October 21, 2020 Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Al Jazeera that the “third peak” was a result of “people getting back to some semblance of their lives, and the inability of many states to test, trace and isolate”. “We still are unable to test effectively with rapid results to enable efficient contact tracing.” Excess deaths Coronavirus deaths hit daily records in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin on Wednesday, according to a Reuters analysis. “The political divide and injection of politics into the response since January has destroyed the ability to mitigate this virus,” Adalja, the Johns Hopkins scholar, said.

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