Elkhart County, Ind., leaders, as well as the city, say they’re alarmed after recent New York Times data calls Elkhart one of the next emerging hotspots in the country for COVID-19.
16 News Now spoke with the mayor’s office as well as county emergency management staff to learn why this spike in cases is happening and what people can do to stop it.
“We were just as concerned as everyone else was when we saw that big spike and that big increase, especially being included in that New York Times data,” Corinne Straight-Reed says. She is director of communications for the mayor.
“I’m very alarmed because obviously our message isn’t getting out to the people that it needs to get out to,” director of emergency management for Elkhart County Jenn Tobey says.
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Here’s a link to the latest New York Times data as of May 29.
Elkhart County has now jumped up to 1,101 cases of COVID-19. A week ago from the date of this article the total was at 844 cases.
The county put out a press release saying the New York Times is ranking Elkhart as 10th in the nation for being the next possible outbreak area.
