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
(51,630 posts)AZ8theist
(5,502 posts)crickets
(25,983 posts)That's no way to hold on to a Senate seat. smh
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)crickets
(25,983 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)Could just be because of increased testing. Some nearby counties still show zero cases.
LeftInTX
(25,559 posts)benld74
(9,910 posts)MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)Very interesting, Ive bookmarked it for future research.
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)He's a self-proclaimed cheerleader. If he's pushing a rosy garden prospect, he's lying to you.
AZ8theist
(5,502 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 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
(8,845 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
(26,319 posts)restaurants liquor license might cause some of these places to reconsider.
Auggie
(31,194 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
(10,058 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,222 posts)Trumpistan is getting hit
IronLionZion
(45,534 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
(21,152 posts)I submit the lack of a plan is at least 75% of this fiasco.
iluvtennis
(19,875 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,845 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
(8,845 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
(22,162 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
(28,127 posts)Last edited Wed May 13, 2020, 05:47 PM - Edit history (1)
Stay awhile, have some pie. 😉
zanana1
(6,129 posts)The government was lying about how many GI's died every day.