Coronavirus has come to Trump countryAfter being centered in blue states, cases are now being added faster in red ones
After months of quarantine and restrictions, a health care worker and a large group of her friends went out for a meal at a recently reopened restaurant in Florida.
She and 15 others have tested positive for the coronavirus, infections she blames on that meal.
Stories like this are what epidemiologists feared as states pushed to reopen after months of efforts to contain the virus: lax oversight and a failure of people to use protective measures such as masks in places where the virus had not receded.
What makes this story particularly telling, though, is where it occurred: Jacksonville, recently chosen by the Republican Party as the site of President Trump’s formal acceptance of his party’s nomination for November’s presidential election.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/17/coronavirus-has-come-trump-country/
