Bloomberg: “Few areas of the U.S. have been spared a recent surge in the Covid-19 outbreak, as daily new case counts routinely exceed 100,000 across the U.S. and the number of hospitalizations nears totals not seen since the early days of the pandemic. State-level reporting of cases and deaths brush over how rapidly the virus spread through communities, with staggering numbers in some locales as people spread the virus across state lines, often unknowingly, as they socialized, worked or commuted. Examining the country through the more localized communities Americans interact with on a daily basis—roughly defined here as a 2-hour drive from each county seat—it becomes clear where spikes in new cases are steepest and where the death toll is currently rising…”