Members of the medical staff at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, treat a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on July 2, 2020. Credit: Go Nakamura/Getty Images Earlier in the spring, physicians in the Sun Belt states, from California to Florida, watched as COVID-19 ripped through early hot spots and braced themselves for their own surges. But when most Southern states were able to tamp down initial infections and hospitalizations, many hoped that they had managed to put the worst of the pandemic`s first wave behind them. It was only the beginning. In the last few weeks, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have soared in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and other Southern...
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