Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, much attention has been paid to the national figures – whether the nation is “bending the curve.” But the numbers around COVID-19 increasingly make it clear that there isn’t a single national story with the virus. Numbers are down in some places and up in others.
With those differences in mind, this week the Data Download is checking in with the five communities in our County-to-County project, places we are watching the 2020 campaign unfold: Beaver County Pennsylvania, Kent County Michigan, Miami-Dade Florida, Milwaukee Wisconsin and Maricopa in Arizona.
All are critical to this fall’s presidential election and they are living in different realities on the coronavirus. CONT.
Dante Chinni, NBC News