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South Dakota’s Positive Virus Rate Hits 46%—but Noem Aide Says ‘We Feel Pretty Good
Daily Beast ^ | 10/31/2020 | Tori B Powell

Posted on 10/31/2020 11:48:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A staggering 46 percent of coronavirus tests are coming back positive in South Dakota at the moment—but Gov. Kristi Noem has “no opinion” on masks and her team thinks everything is going just fine, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: noem; rate; southdakota; virus
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Tests!!! Cases!!! Everybody hide!!! All this before the election. Disgusting.
1 posted on 10/31/2020 11:48:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many hospitalizations and deaths?
SD may be our Sweden but without the death rate


2 posted on 10/31/2020 11:51:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It might just mean that people who get tested made a pretty good guess that they should be tested.


3 posted on 10/31/2020 11:51:48 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ChicagoConservative27

one word

Sweden

no lockdown

no masks

lowest total *death rate* in the world.....


4 posted on 10/31/2020 11:52:24 AM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new study that specifically examines how COVID-19 is affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) – one of the racial and ethnic minority groups at highest risk from the disease. CDC found that in 23 selected states, the cumulative incidence of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases among AI/AN was 3.5 times that of non-Hispanic whites.

These data also showed that AI/AN who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 tended to be younger than white non-Hispanic individuals with COVID-19 infection. Compared to whites, a higher percentage of cases among AI/AN individuals were in people under 18 years of age (12.9 percent AI/AN; 4.3 percent white), and a smaller percentage of cases were among AI/AN 65 years or older (12.6 percent AI/AN; 28.6 percent white). Limited data were available to quantify the disparity in COVID-19 incidence, COVID-19 disease severity, and outcomes among AI/AN persons compared with those among other racial/ethnic groups, reinforcing the need to prioritize improved data collection as a key strategy to understand and improve health outcomes.

5 posted on 10/31/2020 11:52:26 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Up to 90% Who’ve Tested COVID-Positive Wrongly Diagnosed..

The 40 amplification cycles recommended by the CDC and used in the majority of U.S labs looks like it will generate a lot more bogus positive test results than even the New York Times .. claimed that around 90% of samples taken from a set of positive tests that used 40 cycles were - really negative - because, when they were run through only 30 cycles, no viral remains were detected.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3880628/posts


6 posted on 10/31/2020 11:53:48 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It isn’t the number of cases that determines the seriousness of the pandemic but the rate per million of hospitalizations and of deaths. Those are the figures to be watching and the figures they never publish.


7 posted on 10/31/2020 12:00:05 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: ChicagoConservative27

46% positive rate. No way!!! These tests have a huge false positive rate (and it is likely deliberate to create panic)


8 posted on 10/31/2020 12:00:43 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Means nothing. Absolutely nothing. Death count is the only meaningful measure and they can’t even get that right. 6% of the so-called 200,000 “deaths” is the real number per the CDC? Hoax.


9 posted on 10/31/2020 12:01:34 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yep. It is a virus. It is contagious. It has a lot of potential hosts. Why are they all flummoxed? I bet these people are shocked that kids in daycare catch a lot of colds.


10 posted on 10/31/2020 12:05:37 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

I’m at home with the covid right now. For me it was a mild flu for two days, then a week of boredom. It also came from my wife, who’s a nurse and covered with PPE.

Basically, you either have some immunity, or you’ll get it eventually.


11 posted on 10/31/2020 12:08:01 PM PDT by allwrong57
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To: ChicagoConservative27; silverleaf; Brilliant; ASOC
That's because not all cases are infections (that's a separate kettle of fish) but, more importantly, WHO is getting infected in this 'surge' aren't the at-risk lot but healthy, young folks.

The SD COVID19 site locks up my machine. But using the COVID19 data for Iowa (which has good disclosure), 45% of the 145k cases are from people 18-40 years old. Of this cluster, only 11% have a confirmed pre-existing condition. Perhaps not surprisingly, this 'young' group accounts for only ONE PERCENT of the 1,706 fatalities in Iowa attributed to COVID as of today (and 28% of those fatalities have a pre-existing condition).

By contrast, those from 61-80 and 80+ make up 14% and 5% of cases, respectively, but 43% and 33% have a pre-existing condition, respectively. And, surprise surprise....they make up 40% and 50% of all of Iowa's COVID fatalities, of which 65% and 66% had a pre-existing condition, respectively.

In other words, if the SD 'surge' reflects this Iowa total case data, the young ones are where the case surge is occurring, but they're not taxing the system nor are they dying. The elderly with comorbidities are the ones dying, and where protections should be focused...in an early frost, you don't protect your car - you protect the plants.

12 posted on 10/31/2020 12:09:25 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d say if over 9 million tested positive in this country and 99.7 recover, that’s darn good.


13 posted on 10/31/2020 12:09:41 PM PDT by jersey117
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This is great news....indicating they’re nearly 1/2 way to herd immunity, which is likely more than other regions..... because of no masking during the summer.

Learn from this.

Polls indicate voters are moving away from Biden and Ds because of lockdowns. It will not end well for them. Of course, they had nothing else on which to hang a hat and win an election.


14 posted on 10/31/2020 12:09:51 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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Given the communicability of this virus, it will only be a year or two before everyone has been infected.

Virus gonna virus.


15 posted on 10/31/2020 12:10:28 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Brilliant

It might just mean that people who get tested made a pretty good guess that they should be tested.


That’s the obvious inference.


16 posted on 10/31/2020 12:10:41 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

6% of the so-called 200,000 “deaths” is the real number per the CDC? Hoax.


That doesn’t work. The increased deaths in April, in NYC alone is about 15000, vs the 12,000 your theory cites as national figures for all year.


17 posted on 10/31/2020 12:14:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s because cases don’t mean much.

It’s the death rate, that they very subtly changed form reporting that’s the real issue.

But cases is much more alarming with it’s implication that we’re all going to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


18 posted on 10/31/2020 12:14:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Daily Beast is a Far-Left website. It is part of the “Death to America” left.


19 posted on 10/31/2020 12:17:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: elpadre
"It isn’t the number of cases that determines the seriousness of the pandemic but the rate per million of hospitalizations and of deaths. Those are the figures to be watching and the figures they never publish."

DoughtyOne's COVID statistical summary appearing here on FR daily has all that, so the "figures" certainly ARE published.

20 posted on 10/31/2020 12:18:32 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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