A document created by the CDC and reviewed by Yahoo News lists nine counties and one city with rising infection levels, many in states that have eased lockdown restrictions.
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are worried about new coronavirus outbreaks in a number of counties, including in states that have eased lockdown restrictions, like Florida and Alabama, according to a document reviewed by Yahoo News. A list of “areas of concern” also includes persistent hot spots in Midwestern states — including three in Iowa and one each in South Dakota and Nebraska — that are home to major meat processing plants.
The 18-page document, titled “CDC COVID-19 Response Update May 27, 2020,” and reviewed by Yahoo News, contains state-by-state analysis, as well as more detailed county breakdowns. The report comes as the nation enters its fourth full month of battling the disease, which has sickened nearly 2 million Americans and killed 108,000.
Story continuesThe CDC declined multiple requests to discuss the document. Nor does it appear to have shared its concerns for those counties with the counties themselves. Karen Landers, a media representative for the Alabama Department of Public Health, said her agency “has not been contacted by CDC regarding these counties and cannot verify the data” in the document identifying Lowndes and Bullock counties as areas of concern. Landers added the health department was “aware of increases in cases in a number of counties in Alabama and is taking mitigation strategies.
FEMA told Yahoo News that “each approach uses different combinations of total and new case information to determine which areas may have increasing activity. The assessment of multiple approaches helps identify the strengths of each.” A spokesperson for the agency would not divulge specifics of those approaches.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, an acolyte of President Trump, has been accused of downplaying the severity of the pandemic in his state.
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