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Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that some states in the U.S. reopened businesses too early, leading to surges in coronavirus cases across the country. “I think that they felt they were out of the woods after that first wave passed, but this has really been a regional experience in the United…

on. People got complacent. People got a little bit overly confident in our ability to manage, You know more normally and people started to act like it was summer. They started to act like they wanted to go back to parties and do lots of big things like that. And it's coming back and it's…

Contact tracers at work in a Houston contact tracing facility. | AP Photo/David J. Phillip Severe shortages of public health workers to track disease spread helped fuel coronavirus spikes in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona and could make it harder to stamp out new hot spots. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has about 10 percent…

This store in Arlington, Virginia, was closed in May. We may see another round of closures soon. Olivier Douliery/Getty Images After the U.S. abruptly shut down in the spring, states gradually announced their plans to reopen. Some have adopted careful phased reopenings, where counties or regions must show progress in specific metrics, like a downward…

(Reuters) - Troubling spikes in coronavirus infection rates were reported on Friday in several U.S. states, mainly in the South and West, a day before President Donald Trump was due to preside over an Oklahoma campaign rally that will be America’s largest indoor gathering in months. FILE PHOTO: Claudia Clemente, MA, performs a test for…