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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, October 29. I'm Naila Booth.

Here's how we're making you smarter today. The Senate seats that could flip, and the presidential campaigns weigh in on protests in Philadelphia.

But first, the record surge in coronavirus cases is today's one big thing.

We have this map on the Axios website that looks at whether COVID-19 cases are going up or down in each state since the

previous week. And right now, it does not look good. Nearly every state is

increasing. In the upper Midwest states around the Great Lakes, cases are up about 25% this week.

These also happened to be some of the most fought over battleground states in the presidential

election.

Well more in that in a moment, but first, we wanted to talk to a doctor on the front lines in Wisconsin.

Dr. Jeffrey Pothoff is the chief quality officer at the University of Wisconsin Health and

an ER doctor in Madison, Wisconsin. We spoke last night.

Do you have enough PPE? Do you have enough bed space? We have enough to meet the demands of

the next several days, but at the same time I don't want to give the impression that there isn't a PPE shortage anymore.

You know, even nine months into this pandemic, we don't have any assurances that as we go through this respiratory season we're going to continue to have enough

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