Things Worsening Quickly: 7 States in Dangerous Red Zone, Require Mandatory Lock Downs

AZ, FL, LA, SC, GA, TX, AL in the red zone (>25 cases/100k residents avg over past 7 days)

According to Harvard's Path to Zero Covid Tracker website, in order to be on track for containing the pandemic, a region must get their rate of new infections down to 1 or less per 100,000 residents, averaged over a 7-day period. Fewer and fewer states and counties are meeting this goal. In the past several days, the number of states in the Dangerous Red zone (25 or more new infections per 100,000 residents) has in creased from 4 to 7. In California, the number of counties in the Red Zone has recently jumped from 7 to 12.  According to the website, regions in the red zone are at the Tipping Point and Stay-at-Home orders are necessary to prevent catastrophe. However, even those regions in the orange (10-24 new cases per 100,000 residents) are strongly recommended to impose Stay-at-Home orders. If we combine those states in the red and the orange, that's 21 states, nearly half the country that should be sheltering place!

Imperial, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Tulare, Merced, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Fresno, Madera, Colusa, LA counties are now in the red zone