Red states have taken over as the chief location of new cases.
Mike Pence's recent op-ed "Cases have stabilized over the past two weeks, with the daily average case rate across the U.S. dropping to 20,000—down from 30,000 in April and 25,000 in May.”
That day, cases topped 25,000 for only the second time in two weeks. The next day, they topped 26,000. The next day, they touched 28,000. And on Friday, new cases of COVID-19 in the United States were at 33,300. That’s the highest number of new cases since May 1.
Florida has broken their record again today, with 4,049 cases. Governor Ron DeSantis took a break from earlier excuses to blame roaming bands of watermelon-picking Hispanics for the state’s surge. It would be hilariously racist if it wasn’t also true. Making it much less hilarious, and infinitely more racist.
Yesterday, Texas also racked up a record 4,497 newly confirmed cases, more than double a week ago.
Texas is now the fifth highest state in overall cases of COVID-19. Florida is close behind at number seven. And both are now far outpacing the results from states like New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut that formed the first flank of the U. S. epidemic. In fact, none of those states have seen numbers like those in Florida and Texas since the first week of May.
On Friday, Arizona reported 3,246 new cases, double what the state was reporting a week ago.
Trump has already declared there will be “no more shut downs”
