Over the past week, the U.S. has seen an average of about 42,000 COVID-19 cases per day, an increase of 11 percent from the average two weeks earlier, according to a New York Times tracker. As of Wednesday, more than 7.2 million people in the U.S. had contracted the virus, with over 206,000 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The United States is "not in a good place" as new COVID-19 cases are growing, said Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
