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U.S. Hits 3 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

Infections continue to rise rapidly in the biggest states of California, Florida and Texas

WSJ by Talil Ansari

The U.S. surpassed 3 million confirmed Covid-19 cases less than a month after crossing the 2 million case mark, as the virus spread rapidly in the nation’s three most populous states.

Climbing case counts in California, Texas and Florida drove the U.S. to a new single-day record of infections, with 60,000 new cases reported, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

After the coronavirus was first reported in the U.S. in January, the first one million reported cases developed over roughly three months, as testing centered around those who had fallen ill and essential workers. The second million cases were reported over a period of about six weeks.

Higher case counts are attributable in part to a rapid expansion of testing across the country. Even so, the percentage of positive test cases has also been rising in parts of Florida, California and elsewhere, an indication that the infection is accelerating, since the expansion of testing should bring the overall percentage of positive cases down. Experts including Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease doctor, have warned that the higher percentage of positive tests “cannot be explained by increased testing.”