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Five Days After Trump Let Social Distancing Guidelines Expire, States See More Spikes in New Cases & Deaths

By May 5, 2020May 7th, 2020No Comments

**A Crisis Of Trump’s Own Making**

NME: Coronavirus Cases Increase In Texas Following Reopening Of Cinemas

Kansas City Star: COVID-19 News: Parts Of Kansas, Missouri Reopen As Outbreaks Grow, Deaths Reported

Wall Street Journal: Officials Warn Of New Virus Surge As States Reopen 

On Thursday night, Donald Trump allowed social distancing guidelines to expire, despite no state meeting his own administration’s guidelines for reopening. Now, just five days after Trump allowed guidelines to expire, the same states whose Republican leaders have chosen to risk public health in order to placate Trump are seeing thousands of new cases and hundreds of deaths and the expected number of deaths is increasing nationally. 

Donald Trump is responsible for the thousands of deaths that will undoubtedly result from this short-sighted, erratic decision.

States See Thousands of New Cases and Hundreds of Deaths After Trump Allowed Social Distancing Guidelines to Expire Last Friday

Florida 

  • Tampa Bay Times: Florida Adds 113 Coronavirus Deaths, A New One-day Record. [Tampa Bay Times, 5/5/20]
  • WKMG: Florida Coronavirus Cases Top 37,400, Including 1,471 Deaths, As State Eases Into Reopening. [WKMG, 5/5/20]

Georgia

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution: There Are Now 1,258 Deaths From COVID-19 And 29,560 Confirmed Cases. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/5/20]
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution: CDC Report Suggests Georgia’s COVID-19 Fight Is Far From Over. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/4/20]
  • WJCL: Coronavirus In Georgia: More Than 5,500 Hospitalized As Total Cases Surpass 29,400. [WJCL, 5/5/20]

Iowa

  • MSNBC: “Iowa Doctor: Coronavirus Surge ‘Explosive And Overwhelming.’” [MSNBC, “Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” 5/4/20]
  • WHO-TV: 19 More COVID-19 Deaths, 408 New Cases Reported In Iowa. [WHO-TV, 5/5/20]
  • Siouxland News: Iowa COVID-19 Infections Surpass 10,000. [Siouxland News, 5/5/20]

Kansas

  • Kansas City Star: COVID-19 News: Parts Of Kansas, Missouri Reopen As Outbreaks Grow, Deaths Reported. [Kansas City Star, 5/4/20]
  • KMBC 9 News: Kansas Adds 215 COVID-19 Cases As Rise Around Meatpacking Plants, Correctional Facilities. [KMBC 9 News, 5/5/20]

Missouri

  • KMBC 9 News: Missouri Reports 368 New COVID-19 Cases Monday, Bringing State Total To 8,754. [KMBC 9 News, 5/4/20]

Nebraska

  • Lincoln Journal Star: Nebraska Exceeds 6,000 Confirmed Cases Of COVID-19. [Lincoln Journal Star, 5/4/20]
  • Omaha World-Herald: CDC: Almost 600 Meatpacking Workers In Nebraska Tested Positive For Coronavirus In April. [Omaha World-Herald, 5/4/20]

Tennessee

  • Nashville Tennessean: Coronavirus In Tennessee Updates: Nashville Cases Rise To 3,322; 5 New Deaths Reported. [Nashville Tennessean, 5/5/20]
  • WATE: Tennessee Coronavirus: More Businesses Open This Week As Cases Climb By 394. [WATE, 5/4/20]
  • WSMV: 298 Positive Cases Of COVID-19 Reported At Tennessee Tyson Plant. [WSMV, 5/5/20]

Texas

  • KVEO-TV: Coronavirus Cases Spike As Texas Reopens; Health Officials Concerned For Next Wave. [KVEO-TV, 5/4/20]
  • Dallas Morning News: Dallas County Reports 237 More Coronavirus Cases, Its New Highest Single-day Jump. [Dallas Morning News, 5/4/20]
  • NME: Coronavirus Cases Increase In Texas Following Reopening Of Cinemas. [NME, 5/5/20]

And Across the Country, Trump’s Push to Reopen Increases the Expected Number of Deaths Nationally

  • Wall Street Journal: Officials Warn Of New Virus Surge As States Reopen. [Wall Street Journal, 5/5/20]
  • CNN: Relaxed Restrictions Across Us Will Have A Dire Impact On Coronavirus Death Toll, Experts Warn. [CNN, 5/5/20]
  • CNN: The Price Of Reopening The Economy: Tens Of Thousands Of American Lives. [CNN, 5/5/20]
  • ABC News: Trump’s Reopening Push At Odds With New 100k Death Toll Prediction, New Draft Projections. [ABC News, 5/4/20]
  • The Hill: Startling New Covid-19 Death Projections Highlight Challenges Of Reopening. [The Hill, 5/4/20]
  • Reuters: Researchers Double U.S. Covid-19 Death Forecast, Citing Eased Restrictions. [Reuters, 5/4/20]
  • New York Times: Coronavirus In The U.S.: An Unrelenting Crush Of Cases And Deaths. [New York Times, 5/5/20]
  • CBS News: Projected Death Toll Spikes As Americans Protest Social Distancing Restrictions. [CBS News, 5/4/20]
  • Washington Post: Trump Cheers On Governors Even As They Ignore White House Coronavirus Guidelines In Race To Reopen. [Washington Post, 5/4/20]