These are the only 2 places in all of America without any coronavirus cases

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus update for the US is not good -- more than 8.2 million cases have been reported here, along with more than 221,000 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
• Believe it or not, there are still a couple of remote, small counties in the US that have not yet reported any coronavirus cases.
• The counties are in Texas and Nevada.

Lost in the massive numbers of new COVID-19 cases that comprise each new coronavirus update we get in the US is a strange but true fact: There are still a few counties that are the last pandemic holdouts, the final exceptions to the rule that have yet to see any local coronavirus cases.

Of course, the assumption is that it's only a matter of time. The latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University show how worse the pandemic keeps getting here, with more than 8.2 million coronavirus cases now having been reported in the US (along with more than 221,000 deaths). Moreover, the Johns Hopkins data shows that the national seven-day case average has grown to almost 60,000, up about 73% in a little more than five weeks, per CNN. We're going to be in for a hard winter, the experts keep telling us -- and yet, there are still two counties in the US that, at least as of the time of this writing, have managed to avoid having any coronavirus cases. Here's where they are.

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