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The weekly updates of coronavirus cases in the United States keep rising as Americans go to voting centers on election day. The coronavirus epidemic is clustered in some of the same states that will vote on the presidential election. According to the analysis, the average daily infections go up 20% higher than last week’s report.
This crisis is severe in Wisconsin’s election battleground, in which more than 100,000 cases have been reported from the last month. The patients kept increasing and didn’t display signs of slowing down. Among the nation’s worst trends are Wausau, northern Wisconsin, Beaver Dam, and Fond du Lac.
Coronavirus has caused at least 231,000 lives in the U.S., and the growing number of COVID-related hospitalizations are pushing rural doctors to be innovative. Despite the continuous hike in the number of cases, the CDC or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed people who are sick from Coronavirus can still keep voting in person.
CDC: COVID Positives Could Vote
As the presidential race coincided with a worldwide disease outbreak, the CDC released their revised guidelines. The guidelines explain that all people, including all those positive with Coronavirus, have the opportunity to vote. It also suggests voters take measures to protect poll watchers as well as other voters. The infected voters should also let the election staff know if they are ill or have been quarantined before entering the polling station. The CDC also requires infected voters to keep wearing their masks, do social distancing and sanitize before and after voting.
For Americans who have recently discovered that they have Coronavirus, participating in person may be their only choice. Over the last few days, many who have obtained their test results have already missed their deadlines to apply for absentee ballots in most states, as Neena Satija of the Washington Post stated.
According to Scott Gottlieb, former FDA Commissioner, a further outbreak is expected to occur in the U.S. in the following months. He also said that Americans’ very reality would likely contract the virus could mean higher death tolls for a prolonged period.
Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio released this week an open letter to the people. DeWine calls for both vigilance during the electoral process and increased persistence in battling the virus.
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