Bull crap! “Cases” nationwide are already past their peak and are declining. In states such as Florida, they’re way ahead of the national trend line in the down slope.
NBC is cooking the books to get the headline that they want.
The trick they’re using is looking at a 2-week average, rather than the 7-day average that everyone else has been using for the past year.
Rt is currently well below 1 in all but a handful of states, so the news media are going to have to use ever-more creative math to keep the clicks flowing.