These 5 States Are Expanding Covid Restrictions After Resisting Doing So During First Wave
The vast majority of U.S. states implemented stay-at-home orders in response to the pandemic, requiring nonessential businesses to close and residents to self-isolate inside their respective households to the greatest extent possible. Only Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming did not issue statewide mandates asking people to remain home in March and April, at the COVID-19 outbreak’s onset. However, most—with the exception of South Dakota—still directed nonessential businesses to close, and all suspended in-person instruction at schools....