(CNN) — Health officials have raised concern about coronavirus spread as thousands of people are now braving a pandemic to participate in the national protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
Public health officials have said without the lockdowns that most states put in place, that death toll could have been significantly higher.
In Harris County, Texas, health officials said they identified a nursing home with both cases of the virus and deaths.
On Friday, health officials in Utah said they were “very concerned” about the rise in new cases over the past week.
The US government’s current supply of remdesivir, the only drug known to work against coronavirus, will run out at the end of the month, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, told CNN.
