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The CDC publishes a weekly map showing this data on a state by state basis.

https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/usmap.html

Given the reality of the raw data, these sorts of stories are not a good look for science journalism in general and Ars in particular.

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the raw data appears to agree that Louisiana is surging in cases. What is the issue? Just that they have assigned a cause when it may actually just be correlation?

If Louisiana were the only state experiencing a spike in cases, there would at least be cause to speculate.

Ars doesn't even have that excuse.

America has already experienced too large a decrease in trust towards public health pronouncements.

Continuing to politicize public health reporting is unacceptable.

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