Posted on 04/23/2020 8:35:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican and the governor of one of just a handful of states that has not issued a statewide lockdown order, told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday her state is winning the war against the coronavirus without the extreme and draconian measures some other states have implemented.
Noem said that despite earlier projections of a surge on the hospitals in South Dakota and nationwide, “no, we haven’t” seen such a surge. In fact, South Dakota has—again, without a lockdown—cut that number down by 75 percent of the projections, with much less than a hundred people in the hospital.
According to the state’s Department of Health website, there have been 1,858 cases of coronavirus in South Dakota—937 people have recovered. There have been only 9 deaths, and there are 62 people currently hospitalized. In total, only 111 people were ever hospitalized for coronavirus in South Dakota—far less than ever was expected.
“I think we’ve got maybe 60 people in the hospital right now,” Noem said in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. “We have 2,500 beds set aside for COVID-19 patients, but we only have 63 in. We probably, from all of our projections and studying the science behind the virus, we won’t peak until the middle of June. But we already have
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And for those Hydroxychloroquine haters out there. Get a load of this in the article:
South Dakota has also, at Noem’s direction, formally launched a statewide, fully-funded, and all-encompassing trial to study the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for coronavirus.
There have been some studies that suggest the drug is promising as a potential treatment, and President Donald Trump has touted it as a hopeful possibility, while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized its usage on a compassionate care basis if a doctor decides a patient should use it. But no formal studies yet exist to demonstrate the effectiveness of the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19, so Noem stepped up and rallied all of the state’s major healthcare systems to lead a statewide test of the drug.
“What’s happening here in South Dakota is really unprecedented,” Noem said. “There has never been anything like this that has happened before. There is the state government partnering with all of our major health systems to run a statewide, state-backed-and-funded clinical trial.
We have Sanford Health in our state that does a lot of research, and they’re running many other clinical trials, and they came to the table and said they would lead it, and I said the state would support it and help secure the drugs with the White House’s help, the hydroxychloroquine and whatever else we would need, and then the other two health systems, Avera and Monument, were excited to partner as well. So we will literally have a clinical trial now where every person in the state will be allowed to participate in.”
The lockdown needs to be much lighter in states like North Dakota. It probably needs to be even stricter in parts of New York City.
Right. And what’s the population density? I’ll bet it’s pretty low.
She is a hero. Free thinking and looking out for her constituents.
Yeah, I’m sure the 12 people who live in South Dakota are a really high risk population :P
Nonsense! It has been proven conclusively, without further doubt, that lock downs work! Fauci proclaimed that to us yesterday, anyway. And he is Science, personified.
Actually Dr. Fauci was strangely muted yesterday, even on the subject of Governor Kemp.
I think he knows the clock is ticking and that civil unrest is going to put an end to his gates and phases approach sooner than he’d like.
I truly hope you’re right. The sheepdog/sheep ratio looks frighteningly low in the country now, but the wolves abound.
Gorgeous inside and out.
SD and Sweden might come out of this looking very good indeed.
Apples and oranges. SD has a low population density even in Sioux Falls, so they are going to have a lower infection curve no matter what they do.
Our virus protocol really needs to be done by county and not by state. Very many counties have not seen a virus death and should have been left free to run.
The “argument” that the a-hole left is standing on is “science”. “Science” is one of their gods. The left allows a “god” if they can control it.
Yep. Why it is mentally retarded to lock down anywhere except where it’s densely populated, and experiencing the virus.
“Yeah, I’m sure the 12 people who live in South Dakota are a really high risk population”
Don’t be an ass.
There are 75 people living there.
Just like upper and lower Minnesota.
Sioux Falls area has over 250K population, so it’s not like the entire state is a wasteland. Only 10 deaths per million is pretty low although our curve is likely a bit behind some other states
I know. I was just being a smartass to BoogieMan.
I do love South Dakota - both East River and West River.
I’ve travelled thru a lot of it. Truth be told, I really like Sioux Falls. About once a year, the wife and I go to Sioux Falls simply to get away from the Twin Cities for a while. I could almost imagine living there. Most of the neighborhoods we saw were decent.
And South Dakota is a thru and thru GOP state as well.
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