CDC: 75 percent of US seeing increases in COVID-19 cases in ‘critical phase’ of pandemic

The number of COVID-19 cases is increasing in 75 percent of the country as the U.S. approaches a “critical phase” of the pandemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials said Wednesday.”Unfortunately we’re seeing a distressing trend here in the United States,” Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases, said at a media briefing at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta.The U.S. has confirmed more than 8.1…