Originally Posted by AmeliaG

As people seem to both issue and follow or ignore guidance based on their politics and not on science, it is hard to tell either what should be done or what will be done.

While cases may be on a mild uptick, a heartening stat is that severe cases appear to be down 40%, which seems like a success to me:

This site crunches the official data. Yes, I've heard all the assertions about which states try to skew their data one way or another, but a quantitative analysis is still much more accurate than clickbait headlines.
https://www.thecovid19dashboard.com/country-trends.htm