uptick

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• Mandatory mail-in voting leads to a slight uptick in voter turnout — for both Democrats and Republicans.

  Mandatory mail-in voting hurts neither Democratic nor Republican candidates | Sujata Gupta | August 26, 2020 | Science News

• To be sure, Democrats are still more concerned about the coronavirus than Republicans, but that uptick in our tracker isn’t being driven by just Democrats.

  Some Republicans Have Gotten More Concerned About COVID-19 | Dhrumil Mehta (dhrumil.mehta@fivethirtyeight.com) | July 31, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight

• The third quarter might see an uptick in August and September and look quite a bit better than the second quarter, he said, but that’s partially because the second quarter was so bad.

  Economists Think Congress Should Keep Paying Unemployed Workers $600 A Week — Or Even More | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | July 21, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight

• This bought time for the government to expand testing facilities from just one to 19 across the country, to trace the contacts of infected people, and to prepare health facilities to handle the uptick in cases.

  Why South Asia’s COVID-19 Numbers Are So Low (For Now) | Puja Changoiwala | June 23, 2020 | Quanta Magazine

• In 2017, the researchers noted an uptick in tiny quake activity in the Cahuilla region that had, at that point, been going on for about a year.

  Machine learning helped demystify a California earthquake swarm | Carolyn Gramling | June 18, 2020 | Science News