White House coronavirus task force warns of 'accelerating community spread'

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Wed, 2020-11-11 20:02 — mike kraft

White House coronavirus task force warns of 'accelerating community spread' The White House coronavirus task force is again alerting states of "accelerating" coronavirus spread as cases and hospitalizations rapidly rise across the country with few signs of stabilizing. It strongly recommends increased testing in its weekly reports to states. Betsy Klein, CNN CNN

(CNN) The White House coronavirus task force is again alerting states of "accelerating" coronavirus spread as cases and hospitalizations rapidly rise across the country with few signs of stabilizing. It strongly recommends increased testing in its weekly reports to states.

"There is continued, accelerating community spread across the top half of the country, where temperatures have cooled and Americans have moved indoors," reports dated November 8 and distributed to states Tuesday evening said.

The task force, which warned of "significant deterioration in the Sunbelt" in last week's set of reports, said that that deterioration has only continued in the past week, "leading to the most diffuse spread experienced to date."

The weekly task force reports continue to provide an unvarnished, unfiltered look at the reality of each state's current situation, which comes as President Donald Trump and task force leader Vice President Mike Pence have declined to address the worsening pandemic publicly in weeks. The White House has repeatedly declined to make all of the reports publicly accessible.

In recommendations to several states, the task force called for an expansion of testing, particularly to target asymptomatic cases.

"The silent community spread that precedes and continues throughout surges can only be identified and interrupted through proactive and increased testing and surveillance," reports for multiple states said, suggesting expanding point-of-care antigen tests.

The reports said: "Proactive testing must be part of the mitigation efforts, inclusive of mask wearing, physical distancing, hand hygiene, and immediate isolation, contact tracing, and quarantine." ...

Also see: Washington Post Update --In one week new daily coronavirus cases in U.S. go from 104,000 to 145,000, latest all-time high

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