By Allison Bell | November 18, 2020 at 05:51 PM
This White House
Coronavirus Task Force map shows that most counties reported a very high number
of new COVID-19 cases, per 100,000 residents, for the week ending Nov. 13...
This task force map shows that many counties in
the upper Midwest reported at least one COVID-19 death per 100,000 residents in
the week ending Nov. 13...
A comparison of the latest COVID-19 task force
death map with task force maps for a month ago, two months and three months ago
suggests that the number of counties reporting a high COVID-19 death rate is
growing.
COVID-19 trackers working for the White House Coronavirus
Task Force have found that the virus that causes COVID-19 is now spreading out
in the community in an “aggressive, unrelenting” way.
The pandemic is “reaching most counties, without evidence of
improvement but rather, further deterioration,” the COVID-19 trackers write in
the new report, which covers the week ending Nov. 13 and was released Nov. 15.
Resources
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A
copy of the White House Coronavirus Task Force weekly report is available here.
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The
CDC’s weekly COVID-19 report is available here.
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An
earlier article about COVID-19 data is available here.
“Current mitigation efforts are inadequate and must be increased
to flatten the curve to sustain the health system for both COVID and non-COVID
emergencies,” the COVID-19 trackers say in the report.
The task force COVID-19 trackers are preparing weekly national
and state-level reports for use by the task force and by state and federal
public health officials. The task force is not making the reports available to
the public, but public health officials have started making the reports
available to news organizations.
The version of the report used for this article was the report
for Kansas. It was posted by the Kansas Reflector, a nonprofit Kansas news organization.
CNN, CBS News and other organizations also have posted versions
of the reports. WABE — a radio station in Atlanta has posted the Nov. 15
report for Georgia here.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health posts the task force
reports for Pennsylvania here.
In the Kansas version of the latest report, for example, the
White House task force COVID-19 trackers said that Kansas had 619 new cases per
100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 294 per 100,000
The COVID-19 trackers said they are “are encouraged by the bold
steps Kansas is taking to find the asymptomatic individuals to slow the spread”
but would like to see the state do more to get people under 40 to get tested.
Georgia had 117 new cases per 100,000 residents. All that figure
was below the national average, it put the state in the “red zone” for cases,
meaning that the state had 101 or more new cases per 100,000 residents.
Mortality
Tables in the Kansas and Georgia reports show that the United
States experienced 7,608 COVID-19 deaths in the week ending Nov. 13, and 2.3
deaths per 100,000 lives.
The COVID-19 trackers ranked North Dakota and South Dakota as
the states with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents but
did not give the actual number of death counts.
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin were the
high-population states with the most counties reporting two or more
COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents for the week ending Nov. 13.
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