States Rush to Contain Mounting COVID Chaos, but New Rules May Be Too Late

State officials across the country are scrambling to enact new restrictions to curtail the spread of the deadly coronavirus as hospitals struggle to keep up with a tsunami of new patients, as the U.S. crossed the threshold of more than 11 million total cases. Over the last two weeks, a slew of states—from Michigan and the Dakotas to New Jersey—have seen an alarming wave of COVID-19 cases, in a new surge that has accelerated faster than ever…