14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new COVID-19 infections

Even as curves have bent, the numbers are still too high, and the 36-65,000 death toll from Trump’s inaction remains part of the 114,000 US death toll.

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9-June #COVID19 regional Case Progress charts for US states. 23 out of 52 (1 more than yesterday) have 7-day average daily counts of less than 50% of max, indicating their peak has likely passed. 8 out of 52 are at a new (7-day average) daily high today. pic.twitter.com/yEDAONbrtq— Robert Williams (@isfBob) June 10, 2020

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These 14 states just hit their highest 7-day average of #COVID19 cases:
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Kentucky
New Mexico
North Carolina
Mississippi
Oregon
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah.
Also Puerto Rico.https://t.co/OFCN7V0mjU #coronavirus @bellwak— David Beard (@dabeard) June 9, 2020

If the pandemic’s first wave burned through dense metro hubs such as New York City, Chicago and Detroit, the highest percentages of new cases are coming from places with much smaller populations: Lincoln County, Ore., an area of less than 50,000, has averaged 20 new daily cases; the Bear River Health District in northern Utah has averaged 78 new cases a day in the past week, most of them tied to an outbreak at a meat processing plant in the small town of Hyrum.

The increase of coronavirus cases in counties with fewer than 60,000 people is part of the trend of new infections surging across the rural United States. Health experts worry those areas, already short of resources before the pandemic, will struggle to track new cases with the infrastructure that remains.

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