The coronavirus pandemic has generated different responses from all 50 states. However, you’d expect that at least the governors would follow the White House’s COVID Advice.
But as a measure for those governors who didn’t comply to the White House’s COVID advice, Rep. James Clyburn, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent a letter to those four states “demanding extensive documents related to coronavirus response.”
Clyburn requests that documents on the states’ COVID-19 response must be sent to the White House by Aug. 12, according to The Washington Post. “Failure to comply is allowing the virus to spread, prolonging and exacerbating the public health crisis,” he wrote.
During a Select Subcommittee Hearing that took place July 31, Tennessee Rep. Mark Green stated that four Republican states (including his own) were mentioned by Clyburn among the 21 states that are currently in the White House’s “red zone” (the states with more than 100 new cases per 100,000 people registered in the last week).
Clyburn clarified that the letters were sent to “the four states that refused to comply with the critical recommendations from the task force.” The other 17 states’ governors have all agreed to comply to the White House’s advice and recommendations. “All four [states that received letters] have governors who have publicly stated that they do not plan to comply,” said Clyburn during the hearing.
Read on and find out which four states didn’t follow the White Houses’ recommendations.
