Arizona’s caseload as well as that of Utah concern Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of neighboring Colorado. He said at a news conference in Denver on Thursday that the virus’s resurgence in those places threatens rural western Colorado, which has seen few infections.
“A virus doesn’t understand state borders, of course,” he said. “We watch that and we worry.”
“We’re trying to do this in a sustainable way,” Polis added. “I don’t think it does any good to do something that is so careless that it leads to such a large spike that it leads to enormous economic setbacks for your economy again.”
--With assistance from Brenna Goth.
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