The White House coronavirus task force is worried about these 12 cities

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus update from White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx is that officials are especially worried about the deteriorating coronavirus picture in 12 US cities right now.
• Part of the issue is that it's probably better to understand that the US has 50 different coronavirus pandemics, not just one over-arching one.
• That's because each state is different and has taken different steps and thus found themselves at a different place right now in terms of their fight against the virus.

There's at least one aspect of the coronavirus pandemic, specific to the US, that doesn't get talked about as much as it should, alongside coverage of the various daily metrics like case counts, hospitalizations, and deaths.

White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx has been making a version of this point in recent presentations and conversations she's given -- basically, that the US doesn't have a coronavirus pandemic. It has 50 -- meaning, 50 different, state-specific outbreaks of the virus where the mitigation and interventions have all been different, which has led to a situation on the ground that varies from state-to-state. In my state of Tennessee, for example, Gov. Bill Lee remains resistant to a statewide face mask mandate, and you can see the difference in my state's worsening numbers versus a state like New York that has been aggressively fighting the virus for a while now. Because of state-by-state differences like these, though, it really means you can't look at or talk about the pandemic situation in the US as one thing. Accordingly, Dr. Birx explained in a private conversation in recent days with local and state health officials that the coronavirus task force is pretty worried about 12 different US cities right now.

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