The U.S. is heading into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays canceled, beaches and bars closed, and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial test of Americans’ self-control.

They say this could determine the trajectory of the surging coronavirus outbreak.

With confirmed cases climbing in 40 states, governors have ordered the wearing of masks in public, and families are being urged to celebrate their independence at home.

Even then, they are being told to keep their backyard cookouts small.

The U.S. recorded 50,700 new cases, according to a Thursday tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

All but 10 U.S. states are showing an increase of confirmed cases over the last 14 days, according to data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project.

Nebraska and South Dakota were the only states outside the Northeast with a decrease in cases. But those states are also recording higher positive test rates.

Florida reported 10,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases for the first time on Thursday.

That barrier broken is six times higher than where the daily record stood less than a month ago.

The state also reported 67 deaths Thursday for the second time in a week.

The seven-day average for daily fatalities is now back over 40, a 30% increase from two weeks ago.

The state’s death rate peaked at 60 per day in early May, but had declined to 30 by mid-June.

Officials say the rate of coronavirus cases reported each day in Nevada is nearly three times higher than a month ago.

Nevada's COVID-19 response director Caleb Cage said Wednesday that in the seven days leading up to Tuesday, reports of confirmed cases were growing about 3.9%, every day.

The rate at the end of May was 1.4%.

Cage says hospitalizations have been increasing since May 31 but the state is not seeing an increase in patients in the ICU or on ventilators, meaning cases are less severe.

And - California has reversed course on its economic reopening as cases of the coronavirus surge.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday shut down bars, movie theaters and indoor eating at restaurants for three weeks across 19 counties that have 72% of the state’s population.

That closes many businesses that only were allowed to reopen a few weeks ago.

Health officials say many people who visited these places or held indoor gatherings didn’t follow social distancing or mask-wearing rules designed to slow the spread of COVID-19.

In the past two weeks, confirmed cases in California have jumped by 45% and hospitalizations have soared.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

 

 

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