The coronavirus case count in the United States has surpassed 6 million and is growing by about 40,000 a day.

The five-day average of new cases is about 42,000, but the trend of new infections has gone down since July, when about 60,000 new cases were reported daily. The test positive rate has also trended downward for weeks and is now at 5.7%, compared to more than 7% in mid-July.

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