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Coronavirus Updates: Trump Losing Ground in Worst-Hit States; Covid-19 Victims Getting Younger
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The U.S. reported its 28th straight day of record-high coronavirus cases on Monday, amid surges mostly in states President Trump carried in 2016 where support for his re-election now appears to be dwindling.
New cases rose 3.4% in Arizona and 3.2% in Florida Monday, both states he must retain to win re-election. Last week, Jacksonville—where Trump moved the RNC—saw the fastest infection rate of any metropolitan area.
In fact, his approval is slipping fastest in the 500 countries with the most virus deaths per capita, which came as he pivoted from talking about the virus to focusing on reopening, a gamble that seems to be backfiring.
A pair of Pew surveys found that 17% of voters who approved of him in late March disapproved in late June. And now, Trump is trailing Democratic nominee Joe Biden by six points among voters 65 and older in six key battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
As the virus finds more victims, 239 scientists warned that Covid-19 can spread via "microdroplets small enough to remain aloft in the air," indicating the risk of indoor transmission is greater than thought.
On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci in conversation with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the average age of new coronavirus patients has dropped by roughly 15 years in only a few months.
He added that the state of the coronavirus in the U.S. right now is "not good," and "we're still knee-deep in the first wave of this" as cases have doubled in a week and a half as states and cities attempt to reopen their economies.
“It’s a serious situation that we have to address immediately,” he said.
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