Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities
Source: NBC News
Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report, obtained by NBC News, showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.
Coronavirus infection rates are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House's pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News.
The data in a May 7 coronavirus task force report are at odds with President Donald Trump's declaration Monday that "all throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly."
The 10 top areas recorded surges of 72.4 percent or greater over a seven-day period compared to the previous week, according to a set of tables produced for the task force by its data and analytics unit. They include Nashville, Tennessee; Des Moines, Iowa; Amarillo, Texas; and atop the list, with a 650 percent increase Central City, Kentucky.
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The spiking infection rates suggest that the pandemic is spreading quickly outside major coastal population centers that were early hot spots, while governors of some of the states that are home to new hot spots are following Trump's advice to relax stay-at-home restrictions.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/unreleased-white-house-report-shows-coronavirus-rates-spiking-heartland-communities-n1204751
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)That's no way to hold on to a Senate seat. smh
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)Could just be because of increased testing. Some nearby counties still show zero cases.
LeftInTX
(25,611 posts)benld74
(9,911 posts)MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)Very interesting, Ive bookmarked it for future research.
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)He's a self-proclaimed cheerleader. If he's pushing a rosy garden prospect, he's lying to you.
AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)with morons right next to each other eating there dinners on the terrace dining area.
Must have been 30 people give or take.
DENVERPOPS
(8,862 posts)Diner defies Governor's orders not to open. Diner opens up, Trumphumpers crowd the place to show Governor Polis they mean business!!!!!!!! Polis orders State Dept of Health to shut them down, period.........Done !!!!!!!!
We need Democrat Governors like Polis in Every State..............
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)restaurants liquor license might cause some of these places to reconsider.
Auggie
(31,207 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)He knows his base is going to get hit hard.
Because of course, he wants their vote, not that he cares about their safety.
Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Trumpistan is getting hit
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)These are red states with no stay at home orders. What are they trying to prove by deliberately spreading it among their base?
When enough people know someone whose life is destroyed or killed by this virus, they're not going to be too eager to reelect the dumbass who presided over this mess no matter who he tries to blame.
Gore1FL
(21,158 posts)I submit the lack of a plan is at least 75% of this fiasco.
iluvtennis
(19,882 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,862 posts)The Trumphumpers are just being used as a means to an end.....They will suffer as much if not more than we will.
The truth is, they don't give a rat's ass about anyone below the 1%, they are just using their followers as pawns.
Our biggest problem is the RepubliCONs are brainwashing them that it is all the Democrats faults, and of course the minorities..............
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)No doubt in my mind with so many people here not wearing masks (as observed from my car).
DENVERPOPS
(8,862 posts)the second wave will be sweeping across the nation like a tsunami in the next few months and with a vengeance in the fall.
Don't lighten up People!
Bayard
(22,181 posts)My husband worked in Central City for several years. Small city, right on the border with Tenn. Kentuckians have been told to avoid travel to Tenn.
Duppers
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Stay awhile, have some pie. 😉
zanana1
(6,135 posts)The government was lying about how many GI's died every day.