[kitkat]

"The dispute coincides with an admission by prison officials in Colorado, the
center of the outbreak..."

These people are getting worse and worse about how they phrase things to slant them against the Republicans. The above sentence gives the impression that the prison (instead of Colorado) was the center of the outbreak, even though no one in the prison got sick.

[facedown]

These people are getting worse and worse about how they phrase things to slant them against the Republicans.

I agree with you in general but in this particular case I think it's probably just sloppy writing.