COVID-19 death tolls now rising in key states after weeks of decline nationwide
WASHINGTON - Soaring coronavirus infections in Texas, Arizona and Florida are pushing deaths from the disease back upward, reversing two months of declines and undercutting claims by the Trump administration that the pandemic is under control.
In Texas, where hospitals are being swamped by a wave of COVID-19 patients, the seven-day average of deaths hit 46 a day this week, more than double the daily average in mid-June, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The average daily death toll in Arizona has also more than doubled in the last month. And in Florida, another state where
