More states are moving tonight to try to curb the surge of COVID-19.But for now, at least, infections keep reaching new levels, with no end in sight. Lisa Desjardins begins our coverage.Every day this week, in just about every state, caseloads of the coronavirus have been rising.The nation as a whole has logged record numbers in six of the last 10 days.Texas is one of the hardest-hit states, with over 10,000 new cases of the virus yesterday, and the death toll surging past 100 per day.In Florida, patients are pouring into hospitals that once thought they had turned a page.We felt good for a while. We were able to close down the COVID ICU.We had all the COVID patients in one floor. We felt like we had a handle on it.And then we had to open up a second floor and a third floor. Now we're into a fourth and fifth floor. And we don't see it getting any better.In Orlando today, Governor Ron DeSantis again defended his decision to restart the economy in May.There was really no justification to not move forward because of the low,and that continued all through May, continued in the early part of June.And then we have now seen more cases and transmission at the exact same time that the rest of the Sunbelt is.But now more states are pivoting back to old containment measures.Mississippi's governor has now made face masks mandatory in 13 of the hardest-hit counties.
