Push to reopen early behind current COVID outbreak in South
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By John Wojcik

The current coronavirus outbreak in the South and West is explained by the loosening of restrictions and lockdowns that began on the Memorial Day weekend, according to the nation's top health officials and experts.

The out-of-control rise in cases in Florida, Arizona, Oregon, and many other states, they say, can be traced to what happened on that weekend when there was widespread ending of restrictions and lockdowns.

The findings by the health officials are ominous because they portend many states about to become hard pressed to find available beds for sick patients. The health experts are warning that small towns in the South could find themselves worse off than New York was when it was the world epicenter of the contagion.

"In some smaller Southern towns, the per capita rates of infections could be as high as New York City was at its peak," Dr. Erik Toner of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security said yesterday.

The spikes in the infection rates in the states involved are incredible, with Oregon saying it has...

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