Hospitals approach crisis as US coronavirus cases soar to new records – live

Florida and Texas see record surges in daily casesGlobal coronavirus liveblog: latest updatesWill Republicans ditch Trump to save the Senate?Sign up to our First Thing newsletter 3.42pm BST A top health expert has warned that failing to curb the spread of Covid-19 risks plunging the US into instability.“We will have hospitals overwhelmed and not only in terms of ICU beds and hospitals – and that’s bad – but exhausted hospital staff and hospital staff that [are] getting ill themselves,” Dr Peter Hotez, the dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN on Friday night. “So, we won’t have enough manpower, human power, to manage all of this.” 3.27pm BST Outrage is growing among opponents of Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime friend and notorious Republican fixer Roger Stone despite the US attorney general having declared Stone’s conviction “righteous”.Criticism on Saturday came from both sides of the political aisle.Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president. Related: Trump's commutation of ally Roger Stone's sentence sparks outrage Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jul/11/coronavirus-donald-trump-democrats-republicans-us-politics-live-updates #us_news #us_elections_2020 #coronavirus_outbreak #donald_trump #democrats #republicans #us_politics