{"id":35578,"date":"2020-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/09\/record-high-numbers-of-new-covid-19-cases-seen-in-14-states-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:10:07","slug":"record-high-numbers-of-new-covid-19-cases-seen-in-14-states-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/09\/record-high-numbers-of-new-covid-19-cases-seen-in-14-states-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-High Numbers of New COVID-19 Cases Seen in 14 States, Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>New predictions from the University of Washington show U.S. death toll could now hit 145,000 by August<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, June 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A new analysis shows that parts of the country that had been spared the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic are now tallying record-high cases of new infections.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of June, 14 states and Puerto Rico have recorded their highest seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, data tracked by the <i>Washington Post<\/i> show: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, new predictions from the University of Washington in Seattle show the U.S. COVID-19 death toll could now hit 145,000 by August, <i>NBC News<\/i> reported Tuesday. If the prediction bears out, it would mean 30,000 more deaths would occur in the country in the next two months. As of Tuesday, nearly 111,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in this country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/06\/08\/14-states-puerto-rico-hit-their-highest-seven-day-average-new-covid-19-infections-since-june\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/live-blog\/2020-06-09-coronavirus-news-n1228071\/ncrd1228331#liveBlogHeader\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>NBC News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New predictions from the University of Washington show U.S. death toll could now hit 145,000 by August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-35578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}