Birx warns 9 cities, California's central valley about increasing coronavirus cases

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Birx warns 9 cities, California's central valley about increasing coronavirus cases

Thu, 2020-08-06 08:24 — mike kraft

Birx warns 9 cities, California's central valley about increasing coronavirus cases The White House coronavirus task force is warning states about an uptick in coronavirus test positivity rates in a number of new cities this week. Shelby Lin Erdman, CNN CNN

NN)The White House coronavirus task force is warning states about an uptick in coronavirus test positivity rates in a number of new cities this week.

Task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said there are encouraging signs across the South, a region hit hard by a surging pandemic in recent weeks, but she outlined new areas of concern in a private phone call with state and local officials Wednesday, according to a recording of the call obtained by the journalism non-profit Center for Public Integrity.

"We are concerned that both Baltimore and Atlanta remain at a very high level," Birx said on the call. "Kansas City, Portland, Omaha, of course what we talked about in the Central Valley (in California)."

We are seeing a slow uptick in test positivity in cases in places like Chicago, Boston and Detroit and DC," she said, adding that the virus has entered a new phase.

"This outbreak is different from the March, April outbreak in that it's in both rural and urban areas," Birx said.

Birx told CNN on Sunday that the deadly virus is now more "extraordinarily widespread" than it was in the early days of the pandemic.

nessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Virginia.

"Although we're seeing improvements in some of the red states and some of the states have actually moved from being in a red category -- that was more than 10% test positivity -- to under 10%, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia moved back into the yellow states status," Birx said. "Their work needs to continue to intensify to continue to bring down case counts."...

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