If one reads well into the article, one learns the 5 states are Missouri, Arkansas, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah (i.e., not Progs' bogey-states of Texas, Florida, and the Dakotas). So how are these 5 states doing:
Missouri - Currently experiencing a small bump that has not yet peaked; nowhere near the scale of the state's year-end surge;
Arkansas - Currently experiencing a small bump that has not yet peaked; nowhere near the scale of the state's year-end surge;
Nevada - Currently experiencing a small bump that has not yet peaked; nowhere near the scale of the state's year-end surge;
Colorado - After a Spring Break bump, new cases continue to decrease; maybe the Delta variant in the majority of the new cases, but new cases are falling, not increasing;
Utah - Currently experiencing a small bump; it appears to be too early to see if it has peaked peaked; nowhere near the scale of the state's year-end surge.
Unsurprisingly,
The SHill is mountainizing anthills. Meanwhile, new cases in
bogey-states Texas and Florida are flat, and in the Dakotas decreasing and possibly having days with zero new cases. Source, the respective states' pages at
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ .