(CNN) The White House coronavirus task force is again alerting states of "accelerating" coronavirus spread as cases and hospitalizations rapidly rise across the country with few signs of stabilizing. The weekly task force reports continue to provide an unvarnished, unfiltered look at the reality of each state's current situation, which comes as President Donald Trump and task force leader Vice President Mike Pence have declined to address the worsening pandemic publicly in weeks. In recommendations to several states, the task force called for an expansion of testing, particularly to target asymptomatic cases. The report for Ohio described "vast and unmitigated community spread" with "no evidence of improvement." And, as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, one state's report stressed the need for indoor mask usage.
