Florida and Texas reported their biggest daily rise in new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past few days as deaths in the U.S. continue to rise.
" on reopening, saying younger people were driving the spike but that they were at lesser risk than older people.
Republican Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez called the growth"extremely worrisome," and said the growth was partially due to the early reopening of the state. "There's no doubt that the fact that when we reopened, people started socializing as if the virus didn't exist,"Democratic Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego told ABC News that the state may have opened up too quickly, and criticized the federal government's response to the virus and the lack of testing across the state.
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