US mayors warned on Sunday that their cities were in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge in covid-19 cases as they pushed back against governors’ decisions to re-open states and President Donald Trump’s claims that the disease is under control. Across the US, the nationwide rolling seven-day average of new cases hit 48,361 – an increase of 11,740 on the past week. In all 18 states have reported new records, prompting local officials to warn that they are in danger of being overwhelmed. “If we don’t change this trajectory, then I am within two weeks of having our hospitals overrun,” Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas, said on CNN’s State of the Union.
