22 states virus increase, US COVID Death Toll Hits 200000 as Cases Climb in 22 States

 22 states virus increase, US COVID Death Toll Hits 200000 as Cases Climb in 22 States.

The U.S. coronavirus death toll reached the tragic milestone of 200,000 on Tuesday, with at least 22 states now reporting a rise in new cases.

Just last Monday, only nine states were reporting increases in new COVID-19 cases, CNN reported. For the most part, the case spikes are showing up in the country's heartland and the Midwest.

"We're entering into the fall and into the winter, and that means there's going to be more indoor things than outdoor things," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday, CNN reported. "Going into that situation, I would like to have seen the baseline of where we are -- the daily number of infections -- come way, way down, and not be stuck at around 30 to 40,000 per day."

In the next three months, another 150,000 people could lose their lives to COVID-19, according to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), CNN reported.

Alarm is growing in states like Kentucky and Wisconsin, which has one of the highest COVID-19 positivity rates in the nation, higher than 16%, CNN reported.

Wisconsin's governor declared a new public health emergency this week following a surge of cases among young people and issued a new order for face coverings. Kentucky also saw a spike in its positivity rate after several counties witnessed a surge in coronavirus cases, according to CNN.

COVID-19 is now the second-leading cause of death in the United States, just after heart disease, according to the IHME, CNN reported.

As worry builds over what winter will bring, four of the top doctors leading the government's coronavirus response will testify in the Senate on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Updates on the state of the government's response will come from Fauci; Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; and testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir.

Redfield will likely face questions about testing guidelines issued last month that suggested certain people exposed to the virus did not need to be screened, the Times said. Internal documents show the guidance was posted on the CDC website despite serious objections from agency scientists, and the agency reversed the guideline last week.

Hahn will probably be asked about the FDA's plan to issue stricter guidelines for the emergency use of any new coronavirus vaccine, the Times reported. The guidelines may be released this week, and would recommend that vaccine trial data be vetted by a committee of independent experts before the FDA approves any emergency use, several people familiar with the draft told the Times.

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