U.S. reports uptick in daily coronavirus cases as outbreaks surge in Great Plains
Source: CNBC
Coronavirus outbreaks that once swept through the East Coast and America's Sun Belt states are now surging in the nation's Great Plains as North Dakota and South Dakota report more new Covid-19 cases per capita than any other state across the nation.
South Dakota is reporting roughly 57 daily Covid-19 cases per 100,000 residents, the highest of any state in the U.S. based on a weekly average as of Wednesday, according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. North Dakota, which ranks closely in second, is reporting just over 56 new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 residents.
Nationwide, coronavirus cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average, in more than 30 U.S. states as of Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins data. New coronavirus cases grew by more than 8% compared with the week prior, averaging over 45,200 daily new cases.
In Wisconsin, which is reporting the third-highest number of infections per capita in the U.S., the state's outbreak has started to take a "dire" turn as Covid-19 hospitalizations reach record levels. Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday that the outbreak threatens to overwhelm the state's health care systems and their ability to treat severely-ill patients.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/07/coronavirus-outbreaks-sweep-through-great-plains-states-as-wisconsin-activates-field-hospital-.html
The situation in Wisconsin underscores what happens when you have right wing partisans on the Court who drink the Fox News Kool Aid and start invalidating health orders. To really understand how poorly Trump has managed the U.S. covid response, many individual states have more deaths over the past week than the entire countries of Canada, Germany or Italy even though these countries are much larger in size than the individual states.
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it won't matter that you are in Maine. It will eventually arrive there (again and again). 
People in the Midwest and North Central U.S. said the same thing this past spring when southern New England and the upper MidAtlantic states were fully-involved in a corona nightmare.
All you need are a couple super-spreader events like the big wedding a couple months ago, where the same officiator was going to have another go at it in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (my aunt/uncle and cousins used to live in North Hampton, NH near Portsmouth so have been there many times growing up) -
Rev. Todd Bell — who does not require social-distancing practices in his church and officiated the Maine wedding that led to at least eight COVID-19 deaths — will be at his son’s ceremony at a church in New Hampshire
By Julie Mazziotta October 01, 2020 01:49 PM
The pastor who officiated the Maine wedding that turned into a COVID-19 superspreader event linked to at least eight deaths will be required to wear a mask when he is at his son’s nuptials at a New Hampshire church later this month, a church official said.
Rev. Todd Bell, a pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford, Maine, led the Aug. 7 wedding ceremony at a nearby church, and the 65 attendees were in violation of the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on crowd size and its mask mandate. The ceremony, along with the subsequent reception at Big Moose Inn, has now been linked to at least 180 infections and eight deaths, primarily in people at a nearby nursing home who did not attend the wedding.
Bell has ignored social distancing practices and Maine’s mask mandate at his church and encouraged his congregation to trust God rather than the government. But during his son’s wedding, at the South Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he will have to wear a mask or be told to leave, church official Jennifer Leyden said.
“I hope Pastor Bell will wear a mask,” she told The Maine Monitor. “To ask another person of faith to leave is an incredibly hard thing. But unfortunately, I have to be a hard-ass. If you’re not wearing a mask, you’re not coming in.”
https://people.com/health/pastor-maine-superspreader-wedding-will-have-to-wear-mask-sons-nuptials/
(eg., VT & NH & IN, OR, & WV)
I think because tourists in most places during summer are outside, so that helped to mitigate just due to having air circulation. Once it gets cold and people are back inside (except for the snow lovers...lol), then all bets are off.
Johns Hopkins has a "U.S. map-configured" set of plots of the positives in each state (I believe using the same scale so you can directly compare) and you can see just which states have been able to stave it off so far) - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases-50-states
Daily New Cases per 100k people. Data shown from 1/22/20 to 10/7/20
I think it is plotting the value of the # of cases per 100K residents since January. So you see how that metric has changed over time and I believe the color coding they do is showing how much the rate is increasing (red) or decreasing (green) with various shades of color to reflect that rate of change (I believe it is comparing the day-to-day rate of change).
And yes, Washington was one of the earliest hotspots because that is where Chinese travelers were entering (which is what happens normally), BUT it was nowhere near the amounts that eventually happened here on the east coast, when most of the incoming travelers were from Europe.
So all the nonsense from the WH about a "China virus" was actually a "European virus", because it had originally moved from China to Europe, exploded there, and then when Americans started returning home from Europe as those countries started shutting down, it was later found that they were coming in infected, but no one was checking them like they were doing in Washington State for travelers coming in from Asia. 
(Cuomo has ranted and raved about that fact for months)
ETA - this is a map of the actual airports that Americans were directed to fly into when coming from overseas, at the beginning of the pandemic back in February/March -
You can actually correlate the earliest outbreaks to the states where these airports were located, and the infections spread to a couple of the states bordering those with the airports. I had kept wondering why the heck was Massachusetts spiking became it made no sense. Then I found this map and discovered that some overseas travelers were being directed to land at Logan.
and an increasingly loon GOP legislature. And they have been non-stop throwing rocks at him trying to force the residents of our state to become a Florida or Texas. What has helped is that as of the 2018 election, we were able to get rid of the super-majorities (so they are unable to override a veto) AND we were able to get a 5 (D) - 2 (R) majority on our State Supreme Court (elected).
But they still orchestrate lawsuits and organize idiot protestors, who are people basically begging to be infected.
