By BILL BARROW, KEVIN VINEYS and ANGELIKI KASTANISPeople wait in line at a walk-up testing site for COVID-19 during the new coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, June 30, 2020, in Miami Beach, Fla.
No more. An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political ramifications. New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, last week pulled no punches in seeking some vindication for himself and other Democrats who battled the virus first and faced skepticism from Trump and other Republicans.
__ Perhaps the most marked reversal when measuring coronavirus trends by political geography comes when looking at cases on a state-by-state basis. Those that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 accounted for considerable majorities of the earliest cases. Well into March, those states diagnosed four out of five new cases. But since then, the trend lines have taken opposite trajectories. States Trump won account for about three out of four of the newest cases.
One smart virus ... it know what way a state leans politely. And last time I checked California was very liberal!
yeah, because they came to our cities and got others sick.
It's disgusting how you turn this horrible epidemic into politics of upcoming election instead of educating people on how to slow down viral transmission while gradually re-opening to previous lifestyle and work: everybody WEAR a MASK at all times.
_Politics However, the mortality rate is very low
It's too bad disbelief in germ theory didn't keep the coronavirus out of our states as effectively as disbelief in dinosaurs kept evolution out of our science classrooms. RedStateProblems
So a contagious virus spread... in a logical manner... from the most densely populated areas to the least densely populated... and somehow this has to do with politics
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big cities first, around major airports...then spread to more suburban areas...hmmm, exactly like every other country in the entire world!! -Or- since its election year, we can say its democrats that fell first, then they spread it to the republican areas
What a misleading headline. The Democrat cities were exponentially worse than any other city. They’ll never catch up
LOL
It's so hard to trust thenews any more... Is it spreading? or just playingwith the numbers? I'm sick of wearing a mask.
Just wear masks.
_Politics This is simply an insane an incorrect statement.
_Politics
Scamdemic
US political polarization are so intense that not even a global pandemic can bridge the gap...........
So basically the Media is saying we SHUTDOWN for Nothing We could have stayed open and had the same results we are having now, and BTW Hopsitals still aren't overrun They didn't even use the Makeshift Hospitals or the Hospital Ships that were brought in. What a waste of money
When Trump wanted to lick down NY and NJ, their governors threatened civil war. They wanted it to spread out.
So it's a Political P(l)andemic ?
Because Democratic cities are hopping and their International hubs. It makes sense that the virus would start and flourish in these locations. But there is absolutely no excuse for Rural America to be under siege by this virus except by their own ignorance. Karma
OMG! The WORLD 🌎 is ending! AMERICANS can not travel to EUROPE! We are on the SH HOLE list with RUSSIA 🇷🇺 , et al. THANKS to the LOW-LIFE orange 🍊 dude... for SPREADING CORONA/RACISM /JOB LOSSES, etc in this country. 🍊 is the REAL ENEMY of the people! DEFEAT the ENEMY!
Since the death rate and hospitalizations are at an all time low, GOP states must be much healthier.
Except it was Democrat governors sending COVID-positive patients into nursing homes. Don’t forget that.
This comes as no surprise; viruses don't adhere to ideology.
Noticed it got worse in Southern States, particularly Florida, when car tags were from up north were headed to beaches. Yes my job has me traveling daily.
riiiight, b/c there's not going to be a sudden uptick in cases b/c of the big city riots. derp.
Only when red states started getting hit hard did Pence and McConnell wear a mask. Vote every one of these people out
No one is wearing masks
Well, those protesters are everywhere now.
Can you please stop dividing us. The president has done enough damage already
Basically where all the rioters were.
EXCEPT YOU HAVE A .002% chance of dying from Covid...in fact you have a GREATER chance of dying from regular old FLU!!! SheepNoMore IT IS NOT NEEDED & UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! SheepWearMasks WeThePeopleHaveHadEnough COVID19 STOP THE SHUTDOWNS & STOP THE FEAR!
Should we revisit the whole “red states shouldn’t bail out blue states argument?” Maybe we can all just now agree that we are the United States.
This truly says it all.
So wait, this virus has a political strategy? Hit the democratic strongholds first and then when the Republican strongholds get comfortable, like TX and AZ did, then hit them? Quit making everything political.
I think what you're saying is the rise in numbers in red states are caused by liberals/democrats in those states.
Still less deaths sooo
Until Republicans order COVID positive patients into nursing homes, then they have already come out on top.
Viruses don’t care about political party. Which is why wearing a damn mask should be required and not politicized. For pity sakes.
What happened in Albany, GA in Early May is a microcosm of how it will play out!
Omg you ppl are sick.
World's first Political Virus.
So you finally tell the truth democrats lack of taking care of citizens has hurt the entire USA
FYI: The Gulf Coast is coast.
So know we will increase testing and of course states will get funding .. and everyone will be mandated to wear a mask.. Ppe will have a direct line from federal stock piles to red state hospitals. hell the president may even visit a poor sick family and pretend to shed a tear
JonLemire The time they were taking to scoff at NY., they should have been putting things in order in their state.
It is horrific to see the spread but this just reinforces that the virus is not partisan.
No shit, urban areas have higher, more closely packed together people.
Death rate is dropping
'Democratic Strongholds' What? It's not a fucking politically biased disease. Get out AP you're done.
No, it's burning through big blue cities in the south too.
We won't fall for your BULLSH!T this time around.
Coronavirus really only effects about half of 1% of the population 🤣 99.5% of us are good!
trump’s genocide.
Deaths? Or just cases Seniors know by now to wear masks right?
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