Arizona reaches hospital capacity as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
Coronavirus cases surge in states including Arizona and Texas following reopening. Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani weighs in.
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ADAM SHAPIRO: We want to talk about COVID-19 and the coronavirus potential second wave. Anjalee Khemlani joins us now. What is happening? We hear these reports about Arizona hospitals reaching capacity.
ANJALEE KHEMLANI: That's right, Adam. We are hearing some concerning news, you know, really from Arizona as well as other states. Like we talked about yesterday, Texas and Florida as well are among those. And California we're seeing once again a rise in cases at a pretty fast clip.
And so that's one of the things that I think is concerning public-health experts is that we're seeing as we-- you know, as the country eased restrictions and as more people are really, you know, engaging with each other, we're definitely seeing the results of that. What the specific reason for some of these are is still being worked out, but we also know Texas, you know, for example recently said that they're reaching a disaster sort of level.
And so it really is concerning. It's sort of a repeat of what we saw in New York and New Jersey and really is just the virus sort of making its way through the country.
