https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/16/coronavirus-hot-spot-flareups-spread-economic-shut/Virus flareups spread economic-shutdown debate to new 'hot spots'By Tom Howell Jr.
The Washington Times - Thursday, April 16, 2020
Gov. Charlie Baker warned Massachusetts for weeks that the “worst part of the pandemic†would hit around mid-April.
“That part of the pandemic is here,†he said Thursday as hospitals were getting a surge of COVID-19 patients, and his state tally rose to third in the nation.
The governor in neighboring Rhode Island said hospitals probably won’t see a COVID-19 peak until May 3, as the White House touts progress across the nation but points to hard-hit Providence as a potential hot spot in the high-density Northeast.
In the heartland, a Smithfield Foods meat processing plant in South Dakota just turned into the biggest COVID-19 hot spot in the nation, with 644 cases among workers and their contacts edging out tallies on the USS Theodore Roosevelt docked in Guam and at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.
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