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COVID-19: Second Wave for Some; Others Remain in First Wave – Global Health News Wire
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, some locations have experienced decreasing numbers of cases followed by an increase. This has ignited a public debate: Can we call this a second wave? In the journal Chaos, by AIP Publishing, mathematicians r…

This figure groups states according to similarity in their turning points in new case trajectories. Five primary (sub)clusters of time series are identified with the following behaviors: the top 31 states plus D.C. are beyond their first wave and are now experiencing a second wave. The 13 states at the bottom are still in their first wave. The final six states in the middle of the diagram have either flattened the curve after one wave (New York and New Jersey), are coming off the first wave (Uta…