Covidiot Chronicle: Lancaster County, home to the University of Nebraska, is a coronavirus hot spot

Source:  The New York Times

Lincoln Star-Journal, 9/11/2020

The county’s COVID-19 risk dial remained squarely at the center of the high-risk level after a second record-breaking week of coronavirus cases. 

As of Friday afternoon, Lancaster County had recorded 498 new cases this week, up from last week’s high of 476. 

And many of them can be attributed to college students and, more recently, prison inmates, Pat Lopez, director of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, said at an afternoon news conference. 

Of Friday’s 153 new cases, Lopez said, the prisons system accounts for 66, or 43%. People between 18 and 22 years of age account for 51 cases, or 34%.

Source:  COVID-19 Nebraska Responds

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