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Oct. 12, 2020, 6:08 PM UTCUpdated&nbsp;Oct. 12, 2020, 10:22 PM UTCBy Corky Siemaszko hospitalizations were Monday as the United States was just days away from recording it 8 millionth confirmed case of the coronavirus.Once the center of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., New York has seen its number of by 77 percent compared to the same period last month. Gov. Andrew Cuomo stressed that the increases are the result of specific clusters."We're dealing with a very specific situation which is the clusters," he said in a news release over the weekend. "Overall the state is doing very well."Meanwhile, Idaho, South Dakota and Wisconsin have the of new infections in the country, and Texas was close to eclipsing California as the state with the most confirmed cases.With the presidential election 22 days away and early voting underway in many states, the country had already logged over 7.8 million Covid-19 cases, and that number was expected to climb over 8 million by late Thursday, according to a projection by NBC News.That staggering sum seemed unimaginable back in February when President Donald Trump, whose much-criticized handling of the Covid-19 crisis has become a key campaign issue, insisted that the U.S. was in "" and that it was prepared to take on the pandemic.The U.S. continues to have the world's highest death toll, with nearly 216,000 fatalities as of Monday, according to Six states — Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia — have all reported in numbers of new coronavirus cases.New York still has the most deaths, with 34,132, the figures show, but most of those were reported in the early days of the pandemic, when heath officials were still trying to come to grips with the new virus.Since then, however, New York has been able to flatten the curve, and it now has the nation's third lowest rate of new infections (after Maine and Massachusetts), with 1.18, according to the .Still, clusters of infections have popped up in Brooklyn and Rockland County, which are home to large groups of Orthodox Jews. And Cuomo's attempt to clamp down on those neighborhoods has been and lawsuits.A Trump-supporting Brooklyn City Council candidate named was arrested Sunday in connection with a violent demonstration in the Borough Park neighborhood last week, during which.Cuomo has repeatedly urged Orthodox rabbis to refrain from holding large religious services where worshippers are crammed together inside synagogues and where few wear masks."Love your neighbor as yourself," Cuomo, citing the Book of , said in a phone call with reporters Sunday. "The point here is to save a life and not to endanger others."Elsewhere in New York City, life remained far from normal. The annual was a virtual celebration of Italian pride, and Cuomo was grand marshal.The virtual guest of honor? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's leading expert on infectious diseases, who has, since Trump tested positive for Covid-19, intensified his criticism of the White House's response to the crisis and issued increasingly dire warnings about the progress of the pandemic."We're ," Fauci warned last week.Trump was heading to Florida for a campaign rally Monday a little over a week after he was hospitalized after having tested positive. He claimed Sunday, without providing any evidence, that he had "" and that he had "beat" the virus that has felled so many Americans.On Monday, using an Abbott rapid test. While the Abbott antigen test is known for fast results, More than three dozen Trump aides and allies have come down with infections, along with four White House residence staffers. Many of the infections have been tied to a Sept. 26 event Trump held in the Rose Garden to introduce Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, whose confirmation hearings got underway Monday.Outside the Senate hearing room, White House chief of staff to keep his mask on when talking to reporters. "I'm not going to talk through a mask," Meadow said, and the he walked off.Trump has been accused of by politicizing the use of masks. He only recently began , and he presides over rallies where there is .Florida recorded a steep increase in the numbers of new cases and deaths in the spring after it reopened — at Trump's urging — after only a month of lockdown. The state's is one of the highest in the country, and it has reported since the start of the pandemic.Texas reported 1,272 coronavirus deaths in the last two weeks, second only to Florida. During the same period, it logged 63,676 new cases — the most of any state.As of Monday, Texas had 831,789 confirmed coronavirus cases and 17,044 deaths. California, by comparison, had .Corky Siemaszko is a senior writer for NBC News Digital.Joe Murphy contributed.

Oct. 12, 2020, 6:08 PM UTCUpdated&nbsp;Oct. 12, 2020, 10:22 PM UTCBy Corky Siemaszko hospitalizations were Monday as the United States was just days away from recording it 8 millionth confirmed case of the coronavirus.Once the center of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., New York has seen its number of by 77 percent compared to the same period last month. Gov. Andrew Cuomo stressed that the increases are the result of specific clusters."We're dealing with a very specific situation which is the clusters," he said in a news release over the weekend. "Overall the state is doing very...

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