An unpublished document prepared for the White House coronavirus task force and obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom, recommends that 18 states in the coronavirus "red zone" for cases should roll back reopening measures amid surging cases.
The document was dated July 14. The document says Kansas and 17 other states had more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population last week.
The 18 states that are included in the red zone for cases in the document are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.
The 11 states that are in the red zone for test positivity, meaning more than 10 percent of diagnostic test results came back positive are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
The document says the following three counties had the highest number of new cases over the past 3 weeks:
Johnson County
Sedgwick County
Wyandotte County.
The counties represent 58.7 percent of new cases in Kansas.
