After a muted holiday weekend — which saw both measured celebrations and packed crowds — the country faces a deep coronavirus crisis as cases continue to climb and more hospitals report they’re nearing capacity.
After a muted holiday weekend — which saw both measured celebrations and packed crowds — the country faces a deep coronavirus crisis as cases continue to climb and more hospitals report they’re nearing capacity.
This week marks about two months since many states kicked off their reopening plans — which now officials across the country say came too quickly.
In Florida, officials shut multiple beaches throughout the state hoping to avoid July 4 crowds. The state reported 9,999 new coronavirus cases Sunday, bringing Florida’s total to more than 200,000 infections.
« There’s no doubt… that when we reopened, people started socializing as if the virus didn’t exist, » Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told ABC This Week.
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In Texas, which reported its second highest day of new cases over the weekend, a local leader said the state opened « too early, too much, » driving Houston hospitals to surge capacity in recent days.
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« Wishful thinking is neither good economic policy, nor good public health policy, » Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo said on ABC’s « This Week » Sunday. « If we had stayed shut down for longer and opened more slowly, we would probably be in a more sustainable place in our economy. »
The announcement came days after the governor himself — who pushed for one of the most aggressive reopening plans in the country — shut bars back down.
« If I could go back and redo anything it probably would have been the opening of bars, now seeing in the aftermath how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting, » Texas Gov.
