Here’s where experts think the coronavirus will strike next in the US

[Andy Meek]

• Experts are predicting a worrisome rise in the number of coronavirus cases in half a dozen Midwest states.
• The list includes places like Illinois, where Chicago was something of a coronavirus hotspot relatively early during the pandemic.
• This data about a predicted surge in coronavirus cases comes from the PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In a tweet on Wednesday, Harvard Global Health Institute director Dr. Ashish Jha slammed what's become the current status quo within the Trump administration when it comes to addressing the increase in coronavirus cases and deaths in states around the US. He was referring to the piecemeal, every-man-for-himself strategy of letting states deal with the COVID-19 pandemic how they see fit -- with some states acting more aggressively than others -- which has served to ensure that this once-in-a-century health crisis lingers a lot longer than it had to.

"White House strategy has always been to let states go it alone," Jha tweeted. "But we live in a single country with national supply chains, etc. And bad policies in one state end up harming all Americans." In a global pandemic, Jha concluded, "it turns out that having an effective federal government is useful." Indeed, officials like him have resigned themselves lately to the assumption that the coronavirus pandemic will basically slide around to different pockets of the US as time goes on. As localized reactions get more aggressive, in other words, we'll see the virus shift around to another target of opportunity elsewhere in the US.

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