South Dakota seeing surge in COVID-19 transmission as cases rise in Midwest
Source: ABC News
South Dakota has one of the highest rates of COVID-19 spread in the country, several reports show, as the Midwest experiences a surge in cases.
The state ranked second in the country for both rates of new cases and test positivity in the latest report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force. According to the report, dated Sept. 27, both numbers increased over the last week amid greater testing, "indicating increasing transmission."
South Dakota leads in testing positivity in another survey of COVID-19 transmission. According to Johns Hopkins University, as of Tuesday, the state's seven-day average testing positivity rate was 26% -- the highest in the country.
After months of somewhat steady numbers, daily new cases and hospitalizations in the state have surged in recent weeks. South Dakota reported a record number of daily new cases on Sept. 26, with 579. The next day, it reported a record number of current hospitalizations, with 216, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/south-dakota-surge-covid-19-transmission-cases-rise/story?id=73348088
Well, I guess South Dakota's governor is showing up the "elite class of so-called experts."
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It's what her John wants that counts.
Otherwise known as "scientists"... practitioners of the craft that had heretofore advanced Western Civilization to privileged economic status throughout the world... pretty universally respected in our culture... well until the modern GOP began marching us back into the Dark Ages... 
(from their main page - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/)
It's fascinating to see the plots of the states that had/have spikes and the "collateral damage" in surrounding states.
"We are very much working towards increasing testing volume across the state," Department of Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon said during a coronavirus briefing earlier this week. "That will continue to be a priority for us."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/south-dakota-surge-covid-19-transmission-cases-rise/story?id=73348088
You can't "test" your way out of getting rid of the virus when you refuse to institute mitigation steps like social-distancing and mask/face-covering when in close quarters. I get that these states are literal vast swaths of people-less land but there are cities and small towns, let alone the reservations, where this virus can go racing through and spreading like wildfire because it found a new "food source".
you pay for being dumb...oriellys yesterday, 1 guy wearing a mask.
At a lawn equipment store, no one, except me..wearing a mask...
From kansaas....
