These 13 states need to lock down now, according to Harvard coronavirus experts [View all]
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A report released this week by the Trump administrations coronavirus task force warns that 21 states are now in the red zone and need to take aggressive steps to slow the spread of COVID-19.
That sounds serious. But according to new, comprehensive national guidelines from a network of research, policy and public-health experts convened by Harvard Universitys Global Health Institute and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the latest federal report probably isnt serious enough.
Why? Because the steps it recommends may be too weak to suppress the virus, and the threshold at which it recommends them may be too high.
The Trump task force, for instance, doesnt advise authorities to issue stay-at-home orders anywhere. But if the Harvard experts had their way, 13 states would lock down right now. Another 22 would be considering lockdowns.
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In contrast, the Harvard group says that at the red level, jurisdictions have reached a tipping point for uncontrolled spread and will require the use of stay-at-home orders and/or advisories to mitigate the disease.
Right now, that would mean 13 of the Trump task forces 21 red-zone states returning to lockdown: Florida (with a staggering 48.1 new daily cases per 100,000 people), Louisiana (46.2), Mississippi (43.5), Alabama (39.1), Arizona (36.6), Tennessee (34.1), Georgia (33.8), Nevada (33.0), South Carolina (30.1), Texas (27.9), Idaho (27.5), Arkansas (26.4) and Oklahoma (25.6).
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Not only will Oklahoma Governor Stitt not order a full lockdown, he is pushing for schools to reopen.