The number of confirmed infections in the US has topped 4.7 million, with new cases running at over 60,000 a day. While that's down from a peak of well over 70,000 in the second half of July, cases are on the rise in 26 states, many of them in the South and West, anddeaths are climbing in 35 states.
Big house parties and weddings, summer camps, concerts, crowded bars and restaurants, shopping trips without masks - Americans' resistance to curbs on everyday life is seen as a key reason the US has racked up more coronavirus confirmed deaths and infarction by far than any other country. The nation has recorded more than 155,000 dead in a little more than six months and is fast approaching an almost off-the-charts 5 million COVID-19 infections.
Some Americans have resisted wearing masks and social distancing, calling such precautions an over-the-top response or an infringement on their liberty. Public health experts say such behaviour has been compounded by confusing and inconsistent guidance from politicians and a patchwork quilt of approaches to containing the scourge by county, state and federal governments
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