US sees over 50,000 new Covid-19 cases for third straight day as holiday begins
The US reported at least 51,842 new coronavirus cases on Friday, a third day straight with a high of more than 50,000 as the 4 July holiday weekend began. On Saturday one of the worst-hit states, Florida, said confirmed cases there had risen by a record 11,458, the second time in three days the caseload had gone up by more than 10,000.
Nonetheless, Donald Trump used his Fourth of July message to the nation to claim the US was “on [the] way to a tremendous victory” over the virus.
“It’s going to happen and it’s going to happen big,” the president said in the filmed remarks. “Our country will be greater than ever before.”
Trump spoke to the country about what he called a “terrible plague from China” even as, according to a report from CNN, public health leaders were being denied permission to appear on television and speak on behalf of the federal government.
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Ah the joys of senility.