South Dakota reports 259 new COVID-19 cases Friday as active cases continue to rise

[TomCADem]

Source: Dakota News Now

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The South Dakota Department of Health reported 259 new COVID-19 cases Friday and one new death as active cases continue to rise.

The 259 new cases bring the state total to 14,596. Active cases continue to rise to 3,032.

Hospitalizations also increased Friday to 89, up 13 from Thursday. Overall, 1,062 South Dakotans have been hospitalized due to COVID-19.

The state also reported an increase in recoveries. In total 11,394 South Dakotans have recovered from COVID-19.

Read more: https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2020/09/04/south-dakota-reports-259-new-covid-19-cases-friday-as-active-cases-continue-to-rise/

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South Dakota has been marketing itself as a State free from any COVID-19 related restrictions, so it will be interesting to see whether the Governor continues to stick to her Trump talking points as cases rise.

[Thekaspervote]

1. And..being the science based folks they are, they intend to go ahead with the state fair!

[DBoon]

2. dying to free themseves frm the tyrrany of experts

[Wellstone ruled]

3. How ironic,

The largest Hospital Facilities are in Souix Falls,Sanford Clinic,owned by T.Denny Sanford who was charged with child Pornography on Tuesday,and the VA center. Otherwise,most Hospitals are few and far between. Rapid City has the only large facility on the west side of the State.

Watertown has believe only four ICU beds that I recall when a family member spent a few weeks there. Brookings about the same. There is a small VA facility in Yankton,so Kristy Noam is up sh*t crik without a paddle.

[progree]

4. Context: #1 Sodak, #2 NoDak, #3 Iowa --in daily new cases per capita, 7 day moving avg

Daily new cases, PER 100,000, 7 day moving average,
#1 South Dakota
#2 North Dakota
#3 Iowa - another close neighbor of SoDak
...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Scroll down to the "Cases and deaths by state and county" table.
Sort it by the "per 100,000" column that follows the "cases in last 7 days" column

And all 3 states are sharply rising as seen by the little maps of each and every state near the top of the page, with the exception of Iowa which peaked at 1187 cases on August 31, and is 887 on September 3, the latest, so a surprising sudden sharp drop (these are 7 day averages)

EDITED TO ADD: Ooops, sorry, I meant to post this reply to the OP

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Have not set foot in Sodak since three years today.

Used to be on our Summer visiting the Rellies thingee for fifteen years. Last trip turned to crap with all the Trumping going on. Sold the Lake lot and said to hell with it. All the locals turned hard core hate monkers and Racist,nuf said.

So when Covid hit the Meat and Cheese plants,you just knew all hell would break loose. When you saw two and three Families living in rental houses,mostly old farm stead houses were the wind comes in the North side and goes out the South ,you just knew it was going to take one hell of a toll.

Same crap is happening in Iowa and Southern Minnesota,and the local Business people could give a damn less,just lay your money on the counter and get your ass out of my store.

As my Spouse said three years ago,you know,we do not need this crap and have not been back.

[BlueWavePsych]

6. I suspect there will be more ...

[Initech]

7. I wonder how many of these can be tied back to Sturgis?

Yeah let's hold a big biker rally where anything goes in the middle of the worst pandemic in 100 years! What could go wrong?

[Yeehah]

8. Kristi Noem almost makes Sarah Palin look intelligent

It boggles the mind that people vote for airheads who simply recite talking points.

[SharonClark]

9. Iowa's governor Covid Kim is equally dumb.

The farmers get their socialist subsidies from Trump and their red Senators and vote accordingly.