Just five states currently account for nearly half of all new COVID-19 infections in the United States, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and reported earlier today by AP. These states account for twenty-two percent of the US population.

The spike in cases has been especially pronounced in Michigan, where the seven-day average of daily new infections reached 6,719 cases Sunday — more than double what it was two weeks earlier. Only New York reported higher case numbers. And California and Texas, which have vastly larger populations than Michigan, are reporting less than half its number of daily infections ….