[teejers1]

I saw Dr. Vin Gupta last week saying masks are no longer enough when there is exponential spread. They are better than nothing, but the curve isn't gonna be flattened by them when we have so much infection in the population.

Positive test rates over last 7 days according to Johns Hopkins:

South Dakota: 62.6%
Iowa: 58.5%
North Dakota: 12.8%

That North Dakota percentage is really hard for me to believe given that state has the most infections per capita in the world, greater than any other individual country.

With so few residents, ND stats can vary wildly in a short period of time.  Most infections per capita doesn't mean a lot, imo, for a sparsely populated state.  And if a bunch of them got it more than 7 days ago, the positivity rate in last week could be pretty low w/o affecting "the honor" of most infections/capita.

[teejers1]

I saw Dr. Vin Gupta last week saying masks are no longer enough when there is exponential spread. They are better than nothing, but the curve isn't gonna be flattened by them when we have so much infection in the population.

Positive test rates over last 7 days according to Johns Hopkins:

South Dakota: 62.6%
Iowa: 58.5%
North Dakota: 12.8%

That North Dakota percentage is really hard for me to believe given that state has the most infections per capita in the world, greater than any other individual country.

With so few residents, ND stats can vary wildly in a short period of time.  Most infections per capita doesn't mean a lot, imo, for a sparsely populated state.  And if a bunch of them got it more than 7 days ago, the positivity rate in last week could be pretty low w/o affecting "the honor" of most infections/capita.