The 8 states now seeing the worst coronavirus case spikes in the US

• Coronavirus cases are on the rise around the US, with each day bringing a steady drip of new cases as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grind on.
  
• Eight states are seeing a particularly worrisome rise in new coronavirus cases.
• This comes as former FDA commissioners are warning that the Trump administration is exerting a dangerous level of political influence into the operation of the nation's public health agencies.

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In an op-ed in The Washington Post on Wednesday, seven former US Food and Drug Administration commissioners lamented what they see as a dangerous level of political interference from the Trump administration in the work of public health agencies trying to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

That's particularly troubling, continues the op-ed that was penned by Robert Califf, Scott Gottlieb, Margaret Hamburg, Jane Henney, David Kessler, Mark McClellan, and Andy von Eschenbach. Their concerns include the potential impact this politicization could have on the rollout of a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, among other things. “For decades," they wrote, "when we and our predecessors spoke as FDA commissioners about issues of regulation and people’s health, the public knew we were speaking on behalf of experts whose judgments were grounded in science. That is changing in deeply troubling ways.” At the same time, this warning comes as the pandemic is continuing to essentially move around the country, whack-a-mole style -- as locales get hit and respond accordingly, spikes in coronavirus cases decline only to surge again elsewhere (and eventually even return to the original locale).

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