COVID-19 Pandemic Update: Trump Says the U.S. Won’t Shut Down the Economy Again if There a Second Coronavirus Wave

Summary: 

• Brazil on track to surpass Russia in total confirmed Covid-19 Cases
• COVID-19 fatality continues to remain high in Belgium (16.34%), France (15.52%), the United Kingdom (14.34%) and Italy (14.25%)
• In the United States, COVID-19 fatality continues to remain high in Michigan  (9.59%), Connecticut (9.14%), New York (7.88%), Louisiana (7.20%), Pennsylvania (7.09%), and New Jersey (7.07%)
• Dallas, Houston, Southeast Florida’s Gold Coast, and the entire state of Alabama that have been rapidly reopening their economies are in danger of a 2nd Coronaviur Wave of infections over the next four weeks
• Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center said that cases in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area will spike this summer, tripling the number of daily active cases of COVID-19
• In Texas, there has been an outbreak of cases in El Paso and in meatpacking plants in the Panhandle
• South Florida, which has the bulk of that state’s coronavirus cases, looks worrisome over a four-week projection 
• Orange County Calif. reports largest daily death toll
• Trump visits Michigan auto plant without wearing a surgical mask – a state requirement
• Puerto Rico allows barbershops, beauty salons to reopen
• CDC changes guidance, says COVID doesn’t spread easily on surfaces
• France reports 83 deaths
• Michigan Gov signs order lifting more restrictions
• NY reports just 105 deaths
• Mexico reports the biggest jump in deaths
• African CDC says cases pass 95 thousand
• Russian deaths now top 3000
• WHO blames Russia, Brazil for the global jump of 100k new cases for first time in weeks
• NYPost pressures Mayor de Blasio to reopen New York City 
• Upstate Monroe County, N.Y., home to the city of Rochester, hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients have risen by about 70 percent over the past 10 days  since reopening began on Friday
• Mainstream Media already blaming Trump for failing to stop ‘second wave’ of virus
• Nigerian doctors in Lagos end day-long “Doctor’s strike” over police harassment
• UK launches study into the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID prophylactic
• White House economist Larry Kudlow says Beijing must be held accountable over coronavirus