This state has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the country right now

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus update we have shows the COVID-19 pandemic now striking the US heartland much more at the moment, after weeks and months of places like New York and Florida being hit the hardest.
• The White House Coronavirus Task Force in a new report has identified one Midwest state, in particular, as having what may be the worst coronavirus outbreak in the country right now.
• That state is Iowa, and the White House officials' report recommends the state take action like implementing a statewide face mask mandate.

The latest coronavirus update reflecting where the deadly COVID-19 virus is striking the hardest right now in the US shows the pandemic moving deeper into the country, away from the hotspots we've been reading about for months now in places like New York and Florida. Flare-ups are now especially being seen around the Midwest, such as at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign which had been previously regarded as a kind of model for how colleges can reopen in the age of the coronavirus.

Unfortunately, and in spite of a mass coronavirus testing effort encompassing both staff and students there, the university has announced that about 1,000 students have tested positive for the virus since the twice-a-week COVID-19 testing program began at the school on August 16. Accordingly, the school has announced a lockdown for undergraduates that will last for two weeks. Meantime, on a similar note, White House officials have just pointed to a neighboring Midwest state for having what may actually be the worst coronavirus outbreak in the country right now (based on the number of new cases, as well as the positive test rate).

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