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2024 duPont-Columbia Award winner | 2022 Peabody Award winner | 4x @NPPA Reporter of the Year | @9News Director of Special Projects | investigates@9news.com

Nov 3, 2021, 8 tweets

THREAD

Pay attention to the central/Rocky Mountain region of US

Why? Because this is where growth is happening w/COVID right now.

And, yeah, there's a pattern here.

See if you can see it.

(thanks @nytimes)

North Dakota...

Montana

New Mexico

Utah

Colorado
(notice the trend)

Each of these states saw a bump at roughly the same time last year

And are now seeing another now
(2nd worst wave for all... possibility of becoming the worst)

I'm not smart enough to tell you precisely why (beware the anonymous accounts below who will suggest they know)

But... wow...

(damn this flipping virus)

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