As the coronavirus death toll in the United States passes 130,000, authorities fear that a weekend of picnics, pool parties and beach outings for the Independence Day holiday could fuel the worsening outbreak.
Officials in Texas also reported hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed. Hospitalisations statewide surged past 8,000 for the first time over the weekend, a more than fourfold increase in the past month.California Governor Gavin Newsom said the number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 had increased by 50 per cent in the past two weeks, up to 5,800 people.
Health officials voiced fears that large gatherings over the Independence Day holiday weekend could add to the rise in cases. Alabama has been averaging about 1,000 new cases a day, two or three times what it was seeing in late April, when its stay-at-home order was lifted. In New York, once the most lethal hot spot in the country, Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was concerned about reports of large gatherings over the holiday weekend in New York City, on Fire Island and other places.
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