Coronavirus hotspots are growing across middle and rural America. : DETROIT — The coronavirus continued its unrelenting spread across the United States, with a sharp rise in fatalities and pummeling major cities like New York, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago, where an infant that tested positive for the virus died Saturday. It made its way, too, into rural America, where hotspots erupted in ski havens in the Rockies and small towns in the Midwest. Confirmed U.S. coronavirus-related deaths doubled in two days, hitting 2,000 on Saturday evening, based on reporting from state health departments, according to the Washington Post.