June 25, 2020
A health care professional walks through the Texas Medical Center Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Houston. The leaders of several Houston hospitals said they were opening new beds to accommodate an expected influx of patients with COVID-19, as coronavirus cases surge in the city and across the South. (David J. Phillip/AP)
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The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the most aggressive pushes in the nation to reopen, as the daily number of confirmed cases across the U.S. closed in on the peak reached during the dark days of late April.