South Dakota seeing surge in COVID-19 transmission as cases rise in Midwest

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5. This part of the OP article is a ridiculous statement from SD

Testing is "key to achieving epidemic control" in South Dakota, the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommended. State health officials said that's what they're focusing on.

"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".