The worst of the pandemic is hitting Elkhart County, Indiana, just days before the election. The number of new coronavirus cases is exploding. Positive test rates are three times the national average. Local hospitals are running low on beds, their doctors and nurses exhausted.
Indiana has received more than 4,000 complaints about coronavirus-related workplace safety, more than three times the number of all workplace complaints in a normal year, according to the state’s OSHA.
The county’s daily average case count is 37 percent higher now than during the summer surge. The positivity rate for coronavirus tests is 50 percent higher.
Read the full report by The Washington Post here.
