The New York Times claims Ames and Iowa City have the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country as of

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The New York Times claims Ames and Iowa City have the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country as of this weekend.

According to an article by the New York Times, Ames is listed No. 1 for the most cases in relation to their population in the past two weeks. Ames has had 956 COVID-19 cases with 97,117 residents. Iowa City is listed at No. 3 with 1,489 cases in the past two weeks and 173,105 residents.

[link:https://www.kcci.com/article/nyt-lists-ames-as-largest-covid-19-outbreak-in-us-in-relation-to-population-size/33844104|]

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1. Where there may be bad news ahead

Link to tweet

Tweet doesn't show Ames, as of this past week-end. So news of Ames and Iowa City must be later than this tweet.

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2. Here's a link to original NYT article.

Scroll down, you get to the most recent graphic showing Ames as #1 and Iowa City #3

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html|]

On Edit: Rapid City, South Dakota, come in at #18. It's near Sturgis, SD where the dumbass taliban motor cycle white rednecks selfishly rallied at the beginning of August.
Gov. Noem is an Trump humper.

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3. ISU in Ames, is, or at least was for a number of years,

the number one Greek school in the country. That translates to parties . . . and Covid.

[GopherGal]

4. And Iowa City is University of Iowa

where they've just had to shut down all sports practices after 93 positive coronavirus tests.
Maybe these trends will level out some after "bumps" due to returning students. Or maybe they've set the torch to the tinder...

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5. And they are planning on letting 25 thousand fans into the stadium for opening football game.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/football/2020/08/31/iowa-state-allow-25-000-fans-attend-season-opener-jack-trice/3445822001/?fbclid=IwAR2aXm2JicpZgvgiMItW0zbpn4cgkIDcR_OwY6ICc7Um41dLC9bqpgG5w5U

Iowa State plans to allow some fans to attend its season opener at Jack Trice Stadium on Sept. 12.

The Cyclones are expecting approximately 25,000 fans with social distancing and mitigation strategies implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“If our mitigation actions are successful, we will allow all season ticket purchasers to attend the Oklahoma game Oct. 3,” Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard said in a letter to fans Monday. “However, if we determine that mitigation measures were not followed adequately at the first game, we will have no fans at future games (beginning with Oklahoma).”