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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5208/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US COVID-19 Cases Rising Again, Doubling over Three Weeks' data-article-id='5755'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10917'>The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is increasing again after months of falling numbers.</span> <span data-start-time='10917' data-end-time='19458'>The number of new cases a day has increased by 100 percent over the past three weeks.</span> <span data-start-time='19458' data-end-time='32771'>Experts say the increase has been caused by the fast-spreading delta variant, low vaccination rates and recent holiday gatherings in the country.</span> <span data-start-time='32771' data-end-time='47938'>Confirmed infections rose to an average of about 23,600 a day on July 12, up from 11,300 on June 23. </span> <span data-start-time='47938' data-end-time='53146'>Those numbers come from reports from Johns Hopkins University. </span> <span data-start-time='53146' data-end-time='63771'>Every state except two Maine and South Dakota reported that case numbers have gone up over the past two weeks.</span> <span data-start-time='63771' data-end-time='77667'>“It is certainly no coincidence that we are looking at exactly the time that we would expect cases to be occurring after the July 4th weekend,” said Dr. Bill Powderly. </span> <span data-start-time='77667' data-end-time='88813'>He is the co-director of the infectious-disease division at Washington University’s School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. </span> <span data-start-time='88813' data-end-time='94917'>July 4th or Independence Day -- is a major American holiday.</span> <span data-start-time='94917' data-end-time='101750'>At the same time, parts of the country are dealing with strong anti-vaccine beliefs. </span> <span data-start-time='101750' data-end-time='115500'>And the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which was first discovered in India, is making an ever-larger share of infections in the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='115500' data-end-time='128813'>Nationally, 55.6 percent of all Americans have received at least one COVID-19 shot, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</span> <span data-start-time='128813' data-end-time='137500'>Even with the latest increases, case numbers in the U.S. are still much lower than they were earlier this year. </span> <span data-start-time='137500' data-end-time='144333'>They reached a high of 250,000 cases a day in January.</span> <span data-start-time='144333' data-end-time='152292'>The number of people dying from COVID-19 each day is also much lower than six months ago.</span> <span data-start-time='152292' data-end-time='159125'>The country is now reporting fewer than 260 deaths per day on average. </span> <span data-start-time='159125' data-end-time='168729'>Over the winter, there were more than 3,400 COVID-related deaths being reported each day.</span> <span data-start-time='168729' data-end-time='178313'>The large drop shows how effectively the vaccine can prevent serious illness and death in those who become infected.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' 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