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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWas not sure this was true. It WAS! Covid-19 in S. Dakota
I heard this on my car radio earlier today, wasn't sure if I heard it correctly, so I checked it out when I got back to my computer. And I found it. Source is the AP:
"Every year, an average of 48 FLU-related deaths are reported in South Dakota."
22 Nov 2020
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) South Dakota health officials are reporting 42 deaths due to the coronavirus in the last day, lifting the states death toll to 819 since the start of the pandemic. There have been 404 virus fatalities in the state in the month of November.
South Dakota is having almost as many Covid-19 deaths per day as they have FLU-deaths in an entire year! And their Governor will not enforce a masking policy. "Freedumb!!!"
(S. Dakota reported it's first FLU-death today.)
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Was not sure this was true. It WAS! Covid-19 in S. Dakota (Original Post)
Grins
Nov 2020
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And for a state with a pop of 884,659, that's a lot. Thanks, Sturgis and thanks Gov. Britnee or
CurtEastPoint
Nov 2020
#1
Perhaps worth noting is the COVID deaths have mandatory reporting whereas the Flu likely doesn't
mr_lebowski
Nov 2020
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CurtEastPoint
(18,552 posts)1. And for a state with a pop of 884,659, that's a lot. Thanks, Sturgis and thanks Gov. Britnee or
whatever
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)6. And they get the same number of senators as California
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)2. Sturgis didn't help either.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)3. Perhaps worth noting is the COVID deaths have mandatory reporting whereas the Flu likely doesn't
Possibly not apples-to-apples, for those interested in academic details of this nature
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)4. I've been very sad for the people of S. Dakota, where I have lived as boy and man and know
many good people. but one thing I can't help but notice is that there's a lot of religion there.
There are churches everywhere, in the few cities and in the countryside too. I wonder what
effect that has on their covid situation.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)5. I despise MAGAts, GOP, and Fascist Oligarch eXtremists.