Americans went to the polls Tuesday under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with an alarming increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states.

More than 150 prominent U.S. medical experts and health professionals has urged the decision makers to shut down the country and start over to contain the surging COVID-19 pandemic noting that reopening before suppressing the virus is not going to help the economy.

Terming the coronavirus as the “nasty horrible”, President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that it will get worse in the US before the situation improves.