More than 60% of North Dakotans have been infected with COVID

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And South Dakota is slightly behind.
Another deadly GOP fu*k up

https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6859447-Herd-immunity-on-the-horizon-Over-60-of-North-Dakotans-may-have-had-COVID-19]

Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia, believes more than 105 million Americans already could have been infected, well above the 25 million that have been reported, including more than 60% in North Dakota.

Shaman’s team has been studying the true incidence of infection, starting with the outbreak in China, and has estimated that only 20% of cases are confirmed through testing. The vast majority are missed because people have no symptoms, only mild symptoms or never bother to get tested, he said.

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1. Experiment on a State-wide level

Herd Immunity nearly achieved! But there is always the nightmare of how it happened:

As covid-19 surges across the country, one state stands out. In North Dakota, infections are, alarmingly, occurring at more than six times the national rate. How is the disease spreading so quickly through a small, rural state? And what lessons can North Dakota offer as we head into a winter season that Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, has warned will bring “a whole lot of hurt”?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/06/north-dakota-covid-19-cases/

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2. KICK and RIP to ND and SD COVID fallen