The New York Times data page: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html . Useful by-county data, mapped.
Increasing cases in Arizona (and Arkansas and Utah): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/arizona-coronavirus-cases-hospitalizations-increase-after-reopening/5332572002/ (link replaced 6/12/21).
The above states plus 5 more to watch: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/10/21286696/us-covid-19-coronavirus-cases-update-texas-arizona-north-carolina . 6 of the 8 are former members of the Confederacy; 7 of the 8 have Republican governors.
More on US data problems: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243398146.html (link replaced 6/12/21).
A British viewpoint on the US: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/11/us-covid-19-cases-2-million .
More on Brazil’s data suppression: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/judge-orders-bolsonaro-to-resume-publishing-brazil-covid-19-data Another unfortunate confusion of “cases” and “infections”.
Why do we continue to have inadequate testing and tracing? Is it “management” of the numbers downward?: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/06/10/the-surge-numbers-are-real-trump-blames-testing-for-covid-19-spikes-experts-fault-reopening/24518027/
Differences of opinion on coronavirus in Africa: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/10/872789379/why-forecasters-cant-make-up-their-mind-about-africa-and-the-coronavirus .
WSJ: Re-opening and public health in Moscow: https://www.wsj.com/articles/moscow-center-of-russias-coronavirus-crisis-emerges-from-lockdown-11591731671 . By the way, the online article again differs noticeably from the print edition. Check out the picture in the print edition (page A7) – is the lady in the bushes photographing rhododendron blossoms or working for the FSB (the KGB’s successor)?
Re-opening in the UK: travel corridors?: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53002677 .
Re-opening in Texas: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-11/houston-may-reopen-virus-hospital-at-stadium-as-cases-expand .
Many Americans are poorly informed about the safe use of household disinfectants: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e2.htm . Yes, the survey has problems as an opt-in survey; still, the number of people describing high-risk activities with bleach is scary.
WSJ: Status of coronavirus issues: https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-covid-19-what-we-know-about-tests-for-the-new-coronavirus-11585868185?mod=djemHL_t