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Live updates: U.S. surpasses 3 million confirmed coronavirus cases as Trump pushes to reopen schools
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The coronavirus pandemic’s surge across the Sun Belt continued Wednesday as thousands of new cases in Florida and Arizona pushed the total number of confirmed infections in the United States past 3 million, according to data tracked by The Washington Post. The U.S. coronavirus death toll has surpassed 128,000.
President Trump and senior administration officials made a concerted effort Wednesday to downplay recommendations of their own health experts as they ramped up pressure on states to reopen schools, characterizing the move as key to the nation’s recovery.
Here are some significant developments:
The director of the Harvard Global Health Institute said that reopening schools in heavily infected states such as Arizona, Florida and Texas would backfire.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the nation’s largest public school system would not fully reopen in the fall.
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the federal government over an order that would require international students to attend classes in person.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/coronavirus-live-updates-us/