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Scientist Mark Boslough made a chart from CDC data that shows the 7-day average daily increase in new confirmed Covd cases by state. He says, "Blue states remain significantly safer than red states. The worst seven states are all contiguous and represent a large fraction of the former confederacy." — Read the rest