It’s worse than you think. All the reporters refuse to challenge him on his lies & lies about his lies. Oh, they try, but he shouts them down & not one will go full out & call him a liar!
The highest rate of infection is in Albany Georgia. That due to a lot of people going to a funeral & at least one person was infected, but not showing any symptoms, so almost all were infected!
I seem to remember seeing them on the tv show based on his books.