Posted on 03/10/2020 5:04:06 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
South Dakota has five COVID-19 cases including one death possibly linked to the strain of Coronavirus causing a global outbreak, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) confirmed.
State health officials said the person who died was a man between the age of 60 and 69 from Pennington County. They are waiting for medical examiner confirmation but said he tested positive for COVID-19. Noem said he had underlying medical conditions. The man died earlier Tuesday.
The governor’s office said four other people with cases, all travel-related, are not hospitalized at this time:
Male 40-49 – Beadle County
Male 50-59 – Charles Mix County
Female 30-39 – Davison County
Male 40-49 – Minnehaha County
The state doesn’t believe the cases are inter-related. They all involved travel outside of South Dakota, but not necessarily internationally.
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Not to be conspiratorial or anything but since more cases seem to be popping up in random locations is it conceivable someone or some group is seeding this infection in different areas to spread the disease?
It doesn’t seem that what you suggest would be necessary, given how mobile we all are now.
The virus is just leaking all about around the country.
Coming to a ‘hood near you withing weeks.
Conceivable, but not necessarily.
Nothing in Pennington County (Rapid City) which is the 2nd in population and also has a Ellsworth AFB. (B-1s and lots of Minuteman III silos.)
My hometown.
Maybe but more likely is that it's been spreading for a while and they've only begun widespread testing relatively recently.
I've got a soft spot for that area. Spent over 3 years there in the AF in the 80's....loved the area...many many great memories and on my list of top 5 retirement spots.
Maybe the virii in Pennington Co. are all dead now. Who knows?
I live in very rural Kentucky. I felt pretty good about being isolated here. Two cases 15 rural Kentucky miles away. One infectee worked at Walmart so, Lord, we surely all will get it now.
Apparently this guy was a traveler, although they won't tell us where. He was in his sixties and he had a preexisting condition.
I believe we've been averaging about a flat three COVID-19 deaths a day in March.
People here ‘pre existing conditions’ and think ‘wow, he was sick, he deserved it’.
What they don’t realize is that A1C over 6.5 is a pre-existing condition.
as is BMI over 25.
And bp over the allowed numbers.
and having ever had cancer.
etc.
I agree. Lots of people are on the move and interacting in different locations and carrying the infection back home.
I'm just wondering about the clusters in apparently random locations.
None of these people are known to have traveled internationally but they must have become infected at about the same time if incubation rates are consistent.
It could be nothing more than an asymptomatic 'Typhoid Mary' transmission.
Even though the weather isn’t great, I’ve been trying to spend at least an hour a day outdoors. I figure it can’t hurt.
Inaccurate headline.
It should say 5 *identified* cases.
“possibly linked to the international virus”? What else, pay tell, would they be linked to? Billy Bob’s barbershop which has its own independent strain of the virus?
It would seem that news carriers give tests to weed out those who can generate logical trains of thought before hiring.
If you’re below 32N lat for sure, around 1pm is the primo sun time. Overhead at mid day.
I’m fasting starting tonight at 6pm.
We’ll see how long I make it.
Egregious.
here==hear.
too many irons in the fire.
In one of the news conferences, I heard them mention five specific pre existing conditions.
Lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and I think the fifth one was autoimmune disease.
Not sure of the specifics.
And nobody "deserves" COVID-19.
About 60% of U.S. adults have at least one underlying health condition
You’d be surprised to hear that as would I from some of the comments here.
The ‘it only kills 80yr olds’ based on Italian numbers sort of comments.
Not realizing that Italy doesn’t GIVE ICU beds to anyone over 65 any more.
Nor do they give ICU beds to *anyone* with any pre-existing conditions either.
So the over 65’s basically gurgle themselves to death at home.
But hey, old people suck and deserve it. Or something.
If it gets to ‘Italy’ here, no ICU treatment for them!
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