Here is the "SPIKE" in Nebraska - a state that has been minimally impacted and as you'll see has plenty of hospital capacity that won't be needed.
Now the total positive cases is pretty misleading, because that's over the entire time frame from March/April whenever they started counting. But they can't scare you with little numbers so they use that. Nice of them to split out people tested from total tests. Hopefully no duplicate positive tests were counted as "positive cases."
Nebraska's population is 1.9 million - that means in 6ish months 3.3% of the population has allegedly tested positive for it.
Currently according to these numbers, 1.13% (21,502 active cases in a population of 1.9 million) of Nebraska has the wuflu. Shut it all down!!!!!
Most of that doesn't even matter because 2/3s are officially labeled as recovered.
Here are the number of tests being done. Look at that... a spike!!!!! OMG!!!! Scary!!!! It really is a massive jump in testing... right before the election... hmmmmm.... You're looking at a 2x - 4x increase in testing. That's ridiculous and pointless.
Here's the result in percent of people positive. Not much of a SPIKE!!!!! here.
Here is the number positive tests. Now do you think they make this look like the most extreme graph on purpose? Scale plays a large role here.
What's the real impact to Nebraska? Minimal. With the SPIKE!!! and vastly increased testing there's been less that 6000 positive tests in the last 2 weeks!!!!
Here's how many people have died total in Nebraska and some age info.