MOScout Sunday6: Rural Positivity - Watching NWMO - Half MO Pop Vaccine Priority - Current Prez Modeling and more...
COVID crisis continues in Missouri. Hospitalizations climb…
Source: DHSS
Some rural positivity rates are shocking. Here are the top counties in MO (by positivity rates)…
Source: DHSS
A brewing COVID storm in Northwest Missouri with a 1.25 R-rate and only 13% of ICU beds vacant?...
Source: DHSS
About half of Missouri’s 6 million-person population falls into one of the categories of a “priority population” for the COVID vaccine.
Collateral damage from COVID: Child care centers. WSJ reports, “Lawmakers and economists are warning that many child-care providers will fail without government help. If that happens, parents who struggled to find a day-care slot before the pandemic would have to compete for even fewer spaces when it is over.”
It’s also killing the arts.
538 has Biden winning most electoral scenarios right now.
Women are powering Biden’s lead in the polls.
In Missouri, Trump still leads with women, albeit at a smaller margin.
Source: Remington Research/MOScout.
Finally, Metro St. Louis, in partnership with Ameren, is adding its first electric bus. Apparently, no nickname for this 60-foot monster yet.
