CORRECTION to July 17 story on White House COVID-19 ‘red zone’ report

EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Arizona COVID Update that moved Friday, July 17, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the lede and grafs 3 and 4 of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – A July 17 Cronkite News story on an internal White House report that named Arizona as one of 18 states in the “red zone” for COVID-19 infections included an incorrect date. That document was originally uncovered in a Center for Public Integrity report on Thursday, July 16.