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A Trump supporter clearly shows his thoughts on mouth guards during an election rally in Belmont, Wisconsin, on Sept. 26, just as the virus is spreading in the state.
Wisconsin is not just a wave master state in the battle for the White House. It is also one of the states in the US where covid-19 is spreading the fastest. Hospitals are overcrowded and death rates are reaching record levels.
At the same time, New York fears new groups of viruses.
Nearly half of the areas in the United States where the spread of the infection is currently worst are in Wisconsin, according to the New York Times compilation.
And in and around the town of Oshkosh, not far from Lake Michigan, the fastest spread is taking place in the United States right now.
Hospitals pressed
In recent weeks, the infection curve in Wisconsin has pointed sharply upward and, as of Wednesday, the highest number of deaths in a day were reported so far, while President Donald Trump said the next day that the United States is starting to see the end of the pandemic.
Hospitals in metropolitan areas of the state are sounding the alarm about overcrowding.
– In Wisconsin, it is now crucial that you fight so that hospitals do not feel too pressured, says Amesh Adalja, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in the US, A TT.
He believes that development in Wisconsin, among other places, is because people are tired of the restrictions that have limited their lives. That image is confirmed by Dr. Ashok Rai, director of a Green Bay hospital.
“People do not practice social distancing, they do not follow the rules of wearing a mouth guard and they do not quarantine themselves when asked to do so or isolate themselves when they test positive for covid-19,” Rai told the local television channel Wbay. .
Major wave master
President Donald Trump had planned to hold an election rally in Green Bay this weekend, but plans were changed at the request of the mayor of the nearby town of La Crosse, who referred to the rampant spread of the infection.
The election rally had likely been canceled anyway, following the news last Friday that Trump himself tested positive for covid-19.
As the wave-leading state in presidential elections, Wisconsin is not only at the center of the development of the US pandemic, it is also a focal point for political advocacy with only a few weeks left to go. In 2016, Donald Trump took home Wisconsin by a margin of just over 22,000 votes.
But Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is a Democrat. He strongly pushes the issue of mouth protection, and recently asked state residents for help to “stop the pandemic.” Wisconsin’s parliament, with a Republican majority, is trying to stop the injunctions and lift restrictions on the public.
“Pagan ritual”
Opinions are divided among Wisconsin residents on the restrictions, despite the alarming infection situation. Earlier this week, a court in eastern Wisconsin ruled that a woman who refused to wear a mouth guard could not be expelled from her children’s school, local media reported.
The woman had been denied entry to the school after she said during a school meeting that wearing a mouth guard is a “pagan ritual” and that mouth guards and social distancing are not effective.
While the infection is gaining momentum in the Midwest, Michigan is also on track to a new peak and in North Dakota the infection is spreading to a record high, experts in New York are concerned that the spread of the virus could gain new momentum there.
“Not finished with the first wave”
In New York City, which was hit by one of the world’s most intense outbreaks to date earlier this year, a number of small clusters of growing infection have now been discovered, causing authorities to worry.
– They seem to be isolated at the moment, but I think this is something that must be fought very aggressively to maintain control in a city like New York, where it is so difficult to maintain social distance, says Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins University . .
He believes that the spread of the virus will increase in many places in the United States in the coming weeks and months, when the cold strikes.
– We do not have a second wave, we are not finished with the first one yet, says Amesh Adalja.
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