World News – US – Trump moves planned rally to Wisconsin after resistance from local officials

President moves event elsewhere in state but still plans to hold a separate event in Green Bay, a’ red zone ‘for Covid-19

Donald Trump has moved a planned appearance in western Wisconsin elsewhere in the state amid calls from a city mayor and state governor urging him not to hold a rally there. low due to increase in coronavirus cases

Two election rallies are scheduled for Saturday as the key swing state struggles to control a 22% increase in coronavirus cases over the past week

Wisconsin ranks third among states for increase in per capita cases over the past two weeks State health officials on Thursday reported 2,887 new confirmed cases, a new daily record, as well as 21 more deaths The state has now recorded 125,161 cases and 1,348 deaths since the start of the pandemic

Trump has replaced a rally in La Crosse with one in Janesville, about 175 miles away, where the virus is not spreading as quickly He will also host a rally on Saturday in Green Bay Both will be outside, at airports Trump’s decision to visit Janesville prompted local officials to also demand that Trump reconsider

La Crosse and Green Bay have been identified as ‘red zones’ for community spread of Covid-19 by the White House Coronavirus Task Force Janesville is not on the list

The rise in infections in Wisconsin is part of a national trend of rising cases playing out as the presidential election enters the home stretch and the president, far behind in the polls, speeds up its search for votes

Thousands of people, many likely not wearing masks based on recent rallies, are expected to snuggle up in outdoor crowds to hear Trump speak Unless a surprise victory elsewhere, Trump must win Wisconsin to be reelected

The campaign plan took shape when a major new study by researchers at Cornell University suggested Trump is the world’s biggest source of disinformation about Covid-19 The results were based on a full investigation 38 million articles from traditional and online media

While incidents of coronavirus transmission in outdoor environments have not been documented as fully as the viral spread in indoor environments, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, has suggested he was unwise for the president to assemble thousands of people in a « Red Zone » for transmission

« The president could do two things: maybe one is not to come to these two municipalities and towns that are ranked at the top of all places in the country [for infections], » Evers said.

« The second thing that could be done for him is to insist that if people are there they wear a mask He can get there He could wear one too These are the two things he could do to ensure that this does not become a very common occurrence « 

New daily infections increased in 25 states last week, according to an Axios analysis released Thursday, with around 43,000 new cases per day out of around 935,000 daily tests in the United States

And the city of Boston put the brakes on reopening on Wednesday after the state’s public health department said the city could be a « red zone » for active circulation of the virus Infection rates were over 7% in some neighborhoods, Marty Walsh, the mayor, told a news conference, and half of recent cases have been in people under 29

Walsh urged people not to host weekend football-related home parties and called on the city’s large student body to respect social distancing rules

« You wanted to come to college in Boston, you wanted to be treated like adults Well, act like that », says Walsh « We ask you to be responsible »

Republican officials in some states have followed Trump’s lead in relaxing or ignoring coronavirus mitigation measures even as cases rise nationwide Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi, where the number of new cases stable, allowed statewide mask warrant to expire on Wednesday

Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, who is running for re-election, defended himself this week after learning that an outbreak of dozens of cases at a Missouri veterans home followed his visit to campaign

Parson and his wife then tested positive for Covid-19 A spokesperson for the candidate told the local Riverfront Times « there is no connection between the two »

“So far we haven’t had any problems,” he said during the presidential debate on Tuesday night. “It’s outside It’s a big difference, experts say We make them outside We have huge crowds, as you can see « 

But Trump doesn’t always “do them outside” Local health officials have linked a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma that drew more than 6,000 people into an arena in July to an outbreak of hundreds of case in the region Trump supporter Herman Cain, businessman and former presidential candidate, died of Covid-19 after attending event

Trump « was probably the main driver of Covid-19 ‘infodemic’ disinformation », according to Cornell study « We have found that media mentions of US President Donald Trump in the context of disinformation about Covid- 19 were by far the largest share of the infodemic, ”the research wrote.

Responding to criticism over a campaign rally in Nevada last month, Trump told a local newspaper that the risks of such events were low – for him

« I am on a stage and it is very far », he said « And so I am not at all concerned »

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