Cases linked to the rally have been found in South Dakota, Minnesota and six other states. Thousands of bikers attended the rally and neglected to socially distance or wear masks. More than 100 new COVID-19 cases have been linked to the massive Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month in South Dakota.has the most COVID-19 cases is that it does the most testing, a claim public health experts overwhelmingly reject. Trump has stated openly and repeatedly that the only reason the U.S. But Wednesday, the agency reversed course and said healthy people who had been exposed to COVID-19 "do not necessarily need a test" as long as they don't have symptoms. Gavin Newsom posted on Twitter: "This will not be the policy of the state of CA." The CDC had been advising testing for all who showed COVID-19 symptoms or who had been in contact with infected people. "So either the CDC is schizophrenic, or they are admitting error in their first position or this is just political dictations." California Gov. "It is the exact opposite of what the CDC has been saying," Cuomo told reporters. Cuomo of New York accused the agency of bowing to pressure from the White House. The governors of two of the states hit hardest by the pandemic announced that they would not follow the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, which call for less - not more - testing."People are going to get sick, no question about it." "People are going to go into shelters and close confined spaces because of the storm," Varon said. He said he's bracing for another wave of coronavirus patients. Joseph Varon, chief medical officer of United Memorial Medical Center, told The Houston Chronicle that the center plans to reserve half its beds for coronavirus patients and the other half for people with storm-related injuries. It's kind of hard to do social distancing." Houston, which was swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, closed all public coronavirus testing sites ahead of the storm. "Nobody wants to sleep on a gym floor with 200 other people. "Hopefully it's not that threatening to people, to lives, because people are hesitant to go anywhere due to COVID," Robert Duffy said as he placed sandbags around his home in Morgan City, Louisiana. And the idea of bunking in a shelter packed with storm refugees was giving many people along the Gulf of Mexico second thoughts about abandoning their homes. But Travis County, which includes Austin, quickly ran out of rooms. With the pandemic still raging in Texas and Louisiana and Hurricane Laura barreling toward their coasts, local officials were struggling to get people out of harm's way - while keeping them away from one another - by putting them up in hotels.accounts for a little over a fifth of the world's more than 821,000 deaths and about a quarter of the nearly 24 million confirmed cases around the globe. "The additional 5,000 tests per day over the next two weeks will also provide critical data needed to determine the best way to reduce community spread," she said. "We believe that the positivity rate should be used as a key metric to guide the state's decisions on when to tighten or loosen restrictions on businesses, public services and institutions. "While we are still waiting to review the latest emergency orders, we believe that additional restrictions were needed to lower our positivity rate and reduce transmissions in the community," Yamauchi said. By comparison, New York state - once the country's hot spot - has had a positivity rate of less than 1 percent for 19 straight days, Gov. Jessica Yamauchi, who heads the nonprofit Hawaii Public Health Institute, applauded the governor's move, noting that her state has an alarming 9.3 percent positivity rate. Thursday and will remain in effect for two weeks. David Ige, a Democrat, has given the green light to a second "stay-at-home, work-from-home" order for the island of Oahu. While Hawaii's numbers are low compared to the rest of the U.S., they have set off alarm bells, and Gov. The death toll in the United States climbed to more than 180,000 Wednesday, and the number of confirmed cases was fast approaching 6 million, according to the latest NBC News figures. Hawaii is the latest state where the number of cases is increasing the Southern and Sun Belt states have been experiencing explosions of new cases and deaths in recent months after many reopened in May at the urging of President Donald Trump, just as the pandemic was picking up steam in those areas. During this time, the death toll has also nearly doubled, jumping from 26 to 49, the figures show. Since then, the total number of COVID-19 cases has reached 6,700, and public health officials are now reporting around 200 new cases a day.
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