Travel Alert: 6 Midwest States At 'Tipping Point', Per Harvard-Brown Covid-19 Tracker

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Stay classy, Wisconsin! #covidiots

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/09/20/travel-alert-6-midwest-states-at-tipping-point-per-harvard-brown-covid-19-tracker/

[CaptYossarian]

1. My daughter went to her CCD (Catholic Covid Dispenser) class last night.

Her teacher and husband were both maskless. The teacher said they didn't need a mask because "each night, we pray it away". This family also has 8 kids.

I'm pretty sure these types just visited the Trump pro-Covid rally over in Mosinee this past Thursday. The mass murderer is known for his pro-life stance. Of course, you can't tell the holy rollers what to do with their bodies.

[Backseat Driver]

6. God helps those that help themselves - one way or the other, LOL!

[CaptYossarian]

7. I understand what you mean,

I am just blown away by someone not a Southern Baptist (or whatever the hell Sarah Palin is) saying they'd pray anything away. I'll have to check out her shoes next time for buckles on them.

Next, they'll be burning witches here.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Nebraska Will be next. They're blowing up,

So of course they’re stupid governor eased restrictions yesterday.

[Roland99]

3. More details....

Americans who live in 33 states — two-thirds of the country — should not be traveling right now, according to the risk-assessment map run by the Harvard Global Health Institute and Brown School of Public Health. The color-coded map provides a simple way for Americans to assess that risk. Each state has a rating of green, yellow, orange or red, based upon the number of new daily cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people over a seven-day rolling average. States colored red or orange are over the threshold for allowing non-essential travel, according to the scientists.

Based on the tracker’s latest data, six states — North Dakota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma — are now colored red, which means they have 25 or more new positive Covid-19 cases every day per 100,000 people. Those states are “at a tipping point” and should be under stay-at-home orders, according to the Harvard and Brown researchers.


A week ago, only North Dakota was in the red zone. Over the past seven days, the Roughrider State’s average tally of new cases climbed a whopping 49%, from 32.1 to 47.7 new daily cases per 100,000 people.

But the week’s biggest mover was Wisconsin, whose caseload jumped an astonishing 146% — from 16.9 to 41.5 new daily cases per 100,000 people — enough to vault it into second position in the country.

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4. Thank you for this!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. It's funny to me how some of those states...

... are designated as being in the Midwest. Once the "Great Plains" are reached, I personally stop calling those areas the Midwest. It seems like that's how most people used to label those areas in the past.

I think college students are mostly driving the uptick in Wisconsin.

According to the rules in Ohio, people from Wisconsin would need to quarantine if visiting here. I suppose that will be completely overlooked when the Brewers play the Reds soon!

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8. That would be tonight!