According to Worldometers, 3,434,018 people throughout the United States have contracted COVID-19 and 137,850 have died from the virus at the time of this writing.
As has been the case for months, these numbers indicate that the U.S. remains the world's hardest hit nation by the coronavirus. However, this hasn't been a uniform experience across the country as different sites of devastation have sprouted up throughout the past four months.
Back in April, both the state and city of New York were in dire crisis, but that now seems to be true of several states throughout the American South and Southwest.
This reality makes life under the pandemic uncertain, but it also gives us an opportunity to see how the condition of previously ravaged states has improved. And recent reports from New York City seem to add a hopeful note to an otherwise grim national landscape.
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