Number Of Coronavirus Cases In US Tops 2 Million As States Forge Ahead With Reopening

reports the figure was reached “as states forge ahead with reopening their economies and demonstrators gather en masse to protest police brutality and racial inequality.” It took nearly three months for the US “to officially hit 1 million confirmed cases on April 28, but just six weeks to double it.” This “2 million mark comes weeks after President Donald Trump urged governors to ease monthslong restrictions that led to furloughs, layoffs and shuttered businesses, and the White House’s coronavirus task force had begun fading from public view.” USA Today (6/11, Bacon) reports, “The Johns Hopkins virus dashboard counted more than 27,000 new cases Wednesday, a day that saw almost 1,000 U.S. deaths.” Over “113,000 Americans have died since the virus emerged here a few months ago.” https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/us-coronavirus-cases-surpass-2m-312718