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North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alaska all saw new daily highs in confirmed cases of Covid-19 … while Florida’s caseload came in just below the prior day’s record high.
The recent surge in cases, most pronounced in southern and western states, has alarmed public health officials, who urged caution ahead of a 4 July holiday weekend that in normal times would feature big gatherings of families and friends.
North Carolina reported 951 hospitalisations and 2,099 cases, marking a new record for the first time in three weeks.
‘Highest new case count, highest hospitalisations, highest per cent positive since end of April. Please be cautious this holiday weekend,’ Betsy Tilson, North Carolina state health director, wrote on Twitter about Friday’s figures.
Despite the jump in infections, the daily death rate in the United States has remained relatively flat, a reflection of the growing proportion of positive tests among younger people who tend to be healthier and less prone to severe outcomes.
However, the US surgeon general, Jerome Adams, warned that the impact on fatalities from the recent surge which started in mid June had yet to be seen. ‘Deaths lag at least two weeks and can lag even more,’ he told Fox & Friends on Friday.
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