- Experts told Business Insider part of the increase can be blamed on Americans' blas attitudes, which are fueled by a politicization of the pandemic but that's not the whole story.
- Public health guidance has also been both confusing, conflicting, and at times downright unhelpful and dishonest, making it really hard for Americans to know how to do the right thing.
- In what feels like a hopeless fight, many have thrown caution to the wind, instead of emerging slowly and carefully into public life again.
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New cases of the coronavirus in the US continue to hit record highs, in sharp contrast to many other countries where illness rates have fallen off.
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