The 45,942 single-day increase was driven by more than 8,000 new cases in Florida and thousands more in Texas, Arizona and California, according to an NBC News tally.
Vice President Mike Pence meanwhile has postponed appearances that were planned in Arizona and Florida this coming week “out of an abundance of caution” due to the virus spikes in those states, an official with President Donald Trump's campaign said Saturday.Pence is still expected to travel to those states to meet with governors and local officials, but the visits will no longer include campaign events.surpasses a record set Wednesday, when 45,557 new cases were reported.
A global health expert said the increase is due to much of the country's reopening when there were still many active coronavirus cases. "This is happening because much of the country around Memorial Day, and the weeks that followed, we opened up while we still had a large number of cases," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute,Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
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