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Heartland Attack Digital Transformation Saturday September 26, 2020 T: 582-7800 www.arubatoday.com facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday Page 10 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper HEARTLAND ATTACK In this July 14, 2020, file photo, a health worker performs a COVID-19 test at a Test Iowa site at Waukee South Middle School in Waukee, Iowa. Associated Press Virus cases rise in U.S. heartland, home to anti-mask feelings By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, NICKY FORSTER The spike across the Midwest as well as parts of Public Health. and JOCELYN NOVECK the West has set off alarms at hospitals, schools Harvard’s tracking dashboard globalepi- Associated Press and colleges. demics.org has shown an increasing number MISSION, Kan. (AP) — It began with devasta- Wisconsin is averaging more than 2,000 new of states turning red, indicating over 25 new tion in the New York City area, followed by a cases a day over the last week, compared cases per 100,000 population. With experts ex- summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coro- with 675 three weeks earlier. Hospitalizations pecting a surge in coronavirus cases and the navirus outbreak is heating up fast in smaller in the state are at their highest level since the flu as cold weather sets in and people move cities in the heartland, often in conservative outbreak took hold in the U.S. in March. indoors, Tsai warned: “It’s important to not take corners of America where anti-mask sentiment Utah has seen its average daily case count our foot off the brakes.” runs high. more than double from three weeks earlier. The U.S. is averaging more than 40,000 new Elsewhere around the country, Florida's Repub- Oklahoma and Missouri are regularly recording confirmed cases a day. While that number is lican governor lifted all restrictions on restau- 1,000 new cases a day, and Missouri Gov. Mike dramatically lower than the peak of nearly rants and other businesses Friday and all but Parson, a staunch opponent of mask rules, 70,000 over the summer, the numbers are wor- set aside local mask ordinances in the political tested positive this week. Kansas and Iowa risome nonetheless. The nation’s death toll battleground state, in a move attacked by are also witnessing a spike in cases. And South eclipsed 200,000 this week, the highest in the Democrats as hasty. Dakota and Idaho are seeing sky-high rates of world. Meanwhile, confirmed cases of the virus in the tests coming back positive. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a major ally of U.S. hit another milestone — 7 million — ac- "What we're seeing is the newer hot spots rise President Donald Trump, gave businesses the cording to the count kept by Johns Hopkins over the course of the last several weeks, pre- OK to reopen, declaring, “We’re not closing University, though the real number of infections dominantly in the Upper Midwest," said Thomas anything going forward.” is believed to be much higher. Tsai, a professor at Harvard's Chan School of Continued on next page A2 SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2020 UP FRONT Continued from Front In Joplin, Missouri, a mask The governor, who has re- ordinance was allowed to sisted making mask-wear- expire in mid-August as virus ing mandatory statewide, fatigue grew. Since then, also said he will stop cities the number of positive cas- and counties from collect- es there and in surrounding ing fines from people who Jasper County — a deeply don't cover their faces, vir- conservative county that tually nullifying local mask Trump won by more than ordinances. 50 percentage points over Florida was a major hot Hillary Clinton in 2016 — has spot over the summer, and risen about 80%. the death toll there stands "I am getting sick and tired at nearly 14,000. Deaths of telling people to wear are running at over 100 a their masks, and I know they day, and newly confirmed are sick and tired of me infections at about 2,700 a saying it," said Tony Moehr, day. chief of the Jasper County Like Trump, DeSantis has Health Department. "And it questioned the effective- just seems like people have ness of closing down busi- heard it so many times, I'm nesses, arguing that states not sure if they really even that more aggressively shut hear it anymore when we down, including California, say it." have fared no better. At the home of the Univer- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, left, is shown by a poll worker which way to go as he votes early at "The state of Florida is prob- sity of Oklahoma, the Nor- the Richmond general registrar's office in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, on the first day of ably the most open big Virginia's 45-day early voting period. man City Council voted 5-3 state in the country," he Associated Press this week to require that boasted Friday. masks be worn indoors at Florida Democrats have Northam announced he nearly 80 people died were ing social-distancing rules. house parties if more than bemoaned the governor's and his wife have tested charged with neglect over Health officials said if virus 25 people are present. The push to reopen. positive, though he said their handling of the out- cases in these neighbor- ordinance passed over ob- "No one is advocating for he has no symptoms. break. They could go to hoods continue to build, jections from members of a full-scale lockdown in Northam, a Democrat who prison if convicted. It is be- the city might roll back the the public. Florida. But we have been is also a doctor and usually lieved to be the nation's reopening in some places "You can make any law and continue to ask for wears a mask in public, has first criminal case brought and require businesses to that you want to. You common-sense preven- been criticized by Repub- against nursing home offi- close back down. come into my house tell- tion measures such as face licans who say his restric- cials for actions during the In the Midwest, the virus ing me that I got to wear masks, which are essen- tions aimed at slowing the crisis. is now landing squarely this stupid thing and you're tial to preventing further spread of the virus are too — In New York City, which in places where there is going to have a firefight on spread," state Sen. Audrey stringent. beat back the virus after strong resistance to masks your hands," said Josh Dan- Gibson said Thursday. — Two former administra- a disastrous spring, four and governors have been forth, holding a mask, who In other developments: tors of a Massachusetts Orthodox Jewish schools reluctant to require face identified himself as an Iraq — Virginia Gov. Ralph veterans home where were closed for violat- coverings. war veteran.q Birx: Not considering leaving coronavirus task force with what she saw as a di- coordinating the groups." to expire Oct. 2, should be minished role and ques- Birx said she has been on extended. tioned how long she could a heavy travel schedule, "Within two weeks of the remain in the role. Birx said but said that is crucial to mask mandate, you can she was not considering understanding the nation's see the dramatic decline leaving. response. She said she had in cases here in Alabama," "Do I look like a person that been in about 28 states, in- Birx said. is diminished? I'll tell you cluding more than 15 uni- She said it is important for that is the first time those versities, in the last three people to maintain their adjectives have ever been months. mitigation efforts in the fall. used in describing my be- "Yes, I have been on the As Birx urged the extension havior," Birx said. She also road. ... Why is that? That's of the mask order, a new urged the state to extend because that dialogue al- lawsuit was filed challeng- its mask mandate. lows you to understand ing it. Dr. Deborah Birx, right, coordinator of the White House corona- "We are in the middle of a what polices are work- Former Alabama Chief Jus- virus task force, speaks at a press conference along LSU interim pandemic that is affecting ing, what needs to be tice Roy Moore on Thurs- President Tom Galligan, left, after one of several roundtable dis- Americans. As an Ameri- changed, what is difficult day announced a new cussions with LSU officials and others, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 in the LSU Foundation Training Room in Baton Rouge, La. can, I think I can do the for people," Birx said. federal lawsuit challenging Associated Press best service to my country Birx has recently toured the constitutionality of the right now by serving in this Southern universities that mask mandate and past AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — of the task force and was role, working across the are starting the fall semes- state health orders that White House coronavirus considering leaving. agencies because that is ter. She met with Alabama closed businesses or direct- response coordinator Dr. During a livestreamed news the experience that I have," Gov. Kay Ivey in the morn- ed people to stay home. Deborah Birx on Thursday conference at Auburn Uni- Birx said. ing. Birx praised Ivey for The lawsuit was filed by pushed back against a re- versity in Alabama, Birx was Birx said it would be "on me issuing a statewide mask Moore's Foundation for port that said she was dis- asked about a CNN report if I was distressed, right? Be- mandate.
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