Florida’s new COVID cases are outpacing entire continents
Wearing a mask, washing your hands, and keeping your distance is more important now than ever. (Max Bender on Unsplash/)Stay-at-home orders and mask mandates have finally helped to quell COVID-19 cases in the New York area. But testing data shows that while NYC may have been the first pandemic hotspot in the US, it certainly won’t be the last.How bad is COVID-19 in the US right now?According to a case tracker managed by Johns Hopkins University, more than 3.3 million people have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in the United States so far. Nearly 135,000 of those patients have died.More troubling than the case counts themselves is the fact that cases are climbing upward in large chunks of the country. A huge outbreak that started in New York City in March has been largely squashed thanks to measures like mask-wearing mandates and the closures of theaters and bars. Cases...